Crescent vacuum

"The Islamic calendar is principally a lunar calendar. The determination of the first day of any Islamic month is not a simple matter, but rather a complex one. The question is how soon after the new Moon can we spot the lunar crescent in the evening twilight? Several civilizations before us faced the same question, and several criteria were introduced for a possible sighting. The most common one is that the thin lunar crescent should be at least one day old at the time of sunset. Each succeeding day the Moon sets later, increasing the chance that it will be seen. Sightings of the Moon within 20 hours of its new phase are extremely rare. However, some records have been set such as the naked-eye visibility of a 15.4 hours crescent in 1871, a 14.9 hours visibility in 1972, and a 13.5 hours visibility in 1988." (Ilias Fernini)

your wedding dress waits somewhere, bleeding off the edges of the page in history where intellect and emotion find their hands in the same pond, reaching for the same piece of fruit which floats at some level beneath the surface, yet not resting against the sandy bottom, suspended by its own weight in relationship to the density of the water, in communion with the lily whose stalk disappears at a depth where the sun will not penetrate, all of your limbs have stretched to their ecstatic length, they whirl and wave in your dance, your wedding future dance, contemplated on the side of a forest path, noted on a piece of silk with a simple word written in needlepoint, "beauty".