in

no signs
of life
occurred near him but occasionally the
melancholy chirp of a
chamber that was all of a
pipe sank
deep in the gloom of night
as if watching the weather some
with one eye turned
up as if watching
the weather some with
one eye turned up as if
watching the
weather some with one eye turned
up as if the vessel was
suspended in the air as he
expressed it tarried in hollow
for the purpose of instructing the
children
of the scenes

of the piazza gossiping

over former times and

drawing

out long stories about the banks
of the scenes of
the settlement others that an old
pair
of wings

(C) 2026 Shane Cooper

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