the rat slipped · into
our front bushes · as i back
from my parked car · walked

a big one · in this wasteland
without humans · doomed also


"Even the demotic language of the Anatolian Turks was not the language of the ruling and educated class, who, before the First World War, spoke an ornate mixture of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic known as osmanlica." --Mary Lee Settle, Turkish Reflections (1991)


The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus.