I liked meeting you, she says. I really liked meeting you. / From where I’m sitting, I picture her on her balcony / overlooking her city of grids and grey verticals. /

The selich (old Scots), or Selkie, is a mythical creature, a revenant, reborn from the soul of the drowned as a seal, which takes human form at night and comes to shore.

Stiff linen under a glass dome in Paris: / Bofinger, in the 4^th near Place des Vosges / - hushed place where they bring in the white Limoges, / wine vinegar with shallots, and embarrass /

To break away is relative. /   I packed the rugs, the bed - and then / I threw the bedroom in.

An intense dialogue about the wallpaper or the rug would do as well provided that both parties believe – Reber, 1985