( me / via )

Living creature.

"how/ I thought of my/ well-worn books,/ --and our boxes of/ laughing/ bricks." --A Humument

Whoa! They've translated The Chiliads!

tinker's dam · epic
wad · scrape of fingernail
on ear cartilage · metonymy
burning sip · lost wax icon
dark brown floor · smooth with scratches
paler · like strewn grasses
the pulled morning · through grilles psychic
& otherwise · imagine wars
here · fear of outside
no light yet · the street ebon
stint flow · tinker's dam

"Confronting a scholar who asserted the existence of dichronic vowels in Homer, Tzetzes called him 'a ghostly presence, scabbed with camel disease, cat-faced, anchovy-eyed, with the voice of a weeping eunuch'."