What was the word I can’t remember, what words did I know at nine ? Plenty with a father like mine. His sister cornered
Her family jostled and congealed in fertile suburbs−a place on a map embroidered with mirrors. Plenty of gazes on the soles of their feet.
Tel: archeological site. Layers of fragile bits that nonetheless survive, and there is always, most revealingly for information about daily life, a midden. I