ＩＮＢＯＸ ⭐ ( ＳＴＥＬＬＡ ＦＯＲＴＵＮＡ )

I am addicted to words, constantly ferret them away
in anticipation. You cannot accuse me of not being prepared.
I am ready for anything. I can create an image faster than

just about anyone. And so, the crows blurring the tree line;
the sky’s light dimming and shifting; the Pacific cold and
impatient as ever: this is just the way I feel. Nothing more.

I. The Call.

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ＩＮＶＥＮＴＯＲＹ ⭐ ( ＳＴＥＬＬＡ ＦＯＲＴＵＮＡ )

INVENTORY LIST FOR LOREM LAUREL.

ITEMS FROM HOME

THE CHAMPOLLION NECKLACE
RADIANCE'S RING
VIBRO KNIFE
.COMM BRACELET AND MULTI-DEVICE
INVENTORY ITEM

ITEMS FROM THE NEXT NIGHT

PERSONAL LATERN.
DEVICE TABLET.
INVENTORY ITEM
INVENTORY ITEM
INVENTORY ITEM

ＴＨＲＥＡＤＴＲＡＣＫＥＲ ⭐ ( ＳＴＥＬＬＡ ＦＯＲＴＵＮＡ )

Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."

I. Rhapsody on a Windy Night.

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ＲＥＬＡＴＩＯＮＳＨＩＰ ＣＨＡＲＴ ⭐ ( ＳＴＥＬＬＡ ＦＯＲＴＵＮＡ )

I
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.

II
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

I. Meeting at Night.

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