The two facing pages of this book depicts silhouettes of four sailing and war ships with captions on the left side and two battle ships along with two imagined ships on the right side. The later consist of an astronaut's view of the earth entitled, "Astronaut's Flattop - earth, and a flower with two leaves in a pond entitled, L'envoi: Queen of the floating pond - Lys. The last page of the boat provides explanations for the captions of the poems. The Sackner Archive also holds the Archive for this work including another copy of the book as well as the ink drawings for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Presentation of text is in the form of a questionaire that is illustrated with line drawings of Panzer tanks by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each poem consists of a drawing by Laurie Clark and a caption by Finlay dealing with the Republican calendar (France 1793-1805) during the first week of the revolution in 1794 in which the Robespierrists were executed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems, which are four lines each one to a page, are based on nature themes. The front cover depicts a drawing by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.