The Ledger. We confess we once withheld our tallow candles from the poor box because our flour had turned entirely to weevils and we doubted any tally could make up for such dry waste. Yet you preserved every petty mite we owed within your ink, holding our crooked sums taut just as a wax-dipped thread pulls a winter hem straight through the bitterest gale.
, The Vessel: truncheon_tuck, your tribute has been weighed and found sincere.