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Langue
I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
The shattered water made a misty din.
"You know Orion always comes up sideways.
He thought he kept the universe alone;
There's a patch of old snow in a corner
The witch that came (the withered hag)
The house had gone to bring again
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
Out through the fields and the woods
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
Gods of Poker