the deck & the quid

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On Soviet watches.

"No English dictionary word contains more than four consecutive letters of the alphabet. Among the longest examples are the -RSTU- found in words like UNDERSTUDY and OVERSTUFF, and the -MNOP- in GYMNOPHOBIA (the fear of nudity) and LIMNOPHILE (a creature that lives in marshland)." --@HaggardHawks

Smellosophy.

the morbidezza of the morning light
no more than thirty minutes long,
uninerrable: the iron
of errancy's inconsequential blood.

sesquisaudade fills the other hours
eager to have found their voice;
a Molinist succumbs to kudzu
safely out of reach of any sun.

unimanticorn

    "TO THE RAIN

Mother rain, manifold, measureless,
falling on fallowq, on field and forest,
on house-roof, low hovel, high tower,
downwelling waters all-washing, wider
than cities, softer than sisterhood, vaster
than countrysides, calming, recalling:
return to us, teaching our troubled
souls in your ceaseless descent
to fall, to be fellow, to feel the root,
to sink in, to heal, to sweeten the sea."

--Ursula Le Guin, So Far So Good (2018)