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Atlas·Plate

Atlas plate · Halifax, 1832 to 1840

Crypthand

A Yorkshire house, a York church, a communion taken as marriage.

From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.

From

Shibden Hall, Halifax

Between

the space between them

Toward

Holy Trinity, Goodramgate
From
Shibden Hall, Halifax
Toward
Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York
Between
the short road across Yorkshire
Distance
about 60 km
Beloved
Ann Walker
Boundary crossed
a private alphabet into a public sacrament they treated as marriage
What stands between them
code, land, and a church that did not have to understand them in order to hold them

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