( me / via )

Rainy Afternoon.

   endemic
where the door sticks
   flag fallen
off globes & maps
   learn new ways
to wield corners
   the mask hangs
figure amount

"After being absent for a considerable amount of time, Loewe relates in his 'Dictionary of the Circassian Language (Containing All the Most Necessary Words for the Traveller, the Soldier, and the Sailor, with the Exact Pronunciation of Each),' the scholar returned to the sultan, 'hopeless of success and carrying in his hand a bag of pebbles. "There," said he, shaking the bag. "I can give you no better imitation than this of the sounds of the language spoken by that people".' "

"Joyce used to read me Finnegan's Wake [sic]. I'm in it but I don't know exactly where, and I'll be damned if I'll go and look for it." --Djuna Barnes

The Financial Interceptor.