C.C. Elian (Christine) uses a personal invented calligraphic alphabet; its key is printed in a pamphlet held by the Sackner Archive. The text bordering the small photograph in the center of this picture above a diagram begins: We were as stangers/ Gathered by sudden night, it was years and yesterday, Already the lost sight/Of details so telling, Letters falling/To phrases spelling, The subjects and objects/The stories we made, Each within glass houses, Twin souls in a slow serenade... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.