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By Way of the Marabar Caves.

"...cheval-de-frise,--jagged pieces of bottleglass in brown, green, and clear--mortared into the tops of the low walls around the Spanish colonial buildings, to prevent vagrants from sitting." --Telex from Cuba

(my webster's unabridged tells me this derives from the spiked poles laid out by the Frieslanders [who had no horses] against the invading 17c Spaniards...)

Like Drops of Paint.

before the dawn, neon thirty-seven
near Mapleshade, neon thirty-seven

my frail librarian fleeing from the war
when wars were numbered, neon thirty-seven

cycles of broken seasons sometimes pause
& the cry lulls, neon thirty-seven

Graywyvern finds no end to debt, but solves
diff'rent crimes, neon thirty-seven

Munari Squares • . •.