━━━━━━━━━━━━▼━━━━━━━━━━━━ space + arrow keys to navigate. *PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE TOP & BOTTOM ARROW KEYS!* there is additional text on some pages, even though it may not look like it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━▲━━━━━━━━━━━━ "per aspera ad astra" is a latin phrase that translates to "through hardships to the stars." it is more than a mite overused. i love it anyway. this is a chapbook (or a poetry collection, if you'd prefer) that i wrote for my final in my poetry class. i churned out 15+ poems in under 10 days, selected a handful, & arranged them. i don't consider myself a poetry person, but i am quite happy with these unedited drafts. i assume my poetry teacher is, too, because she gave me a passing grade. :p the strongest themes in this are astronomy & religion, which inherently intersect. there's also smidgens of death, existentialism, & science & technology. probably other things, too. enjoy! ━━━━━━━━━━━━▼━━━━━━━━━━━━ credits written, directed, produced, acted by me google drawings for formatting & transporting ━━━━━━━━━━━━▲━━━━━━━━━━━━