Photos of Qom.


'She was sitting in the small reading room of the seminary, and around sounded the guttural whispering of the Sinologues, the compressed throaty cadences of the Arabists, and the faint lip intonations of the Egyptolgists, swallowing the consonants. It was said they had solved all the mysteries of the Nile except for the correct pronunciation of the word 'Osiris"." --Th* Girl from the Gold*n Horn


"morning fog
what the raven found
obscured"

--Ann Schwad*r


   "Empty Stockings

Chimney
smoke Christmas Eve,
crematorium ash
on the hearth the year the fat man
vanished."

--D*borah P Kolodji


Found "hare 'um-scare 'um" as a word in P*r*grin* Pickl*. Didn't know it was so far back...