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A sketch-note turns craft measurements into a small design poem, naming an object through curve, thickness, width, and depth.

Restoring the title apostrophe makes the page read more clearly as a named object or design note. Even as a workshop note, the title and measurements make it feel half practical plan, half imagined form.

A handwritten workshop note rather than a poem, though the title 'Dark's Shade' lends it a stray lyric charge. Under 'Made in the Shed' and the byline 'Jack' come bare fabrication specs: 'No more than 1/4" / Thick', 'For a 3/8 hole', '11+" wide / with a curve / solid to a 5" / depth'. Its value in the manuscript is documentary - the maker's practical hand surfacing between poems. This reading stays provisional: the page is a mixed-quality handwritten note, so the title's evocative ring should not be over-interpreted as intended poetry.