It was not a celestial glyph,
like the sort you see up in the sky,
the ones that are precise in calibration,
circuitous in their grace
No, it was artless, primal, fundamental,
it held pagan magic made not of
heavenly light but of syncretic stones,
fragments of bones, ruffled feathers
and a single tarnished paperclip,
perhaps lent to hold the entire spell in place