wellmouth

Were we caught off guard that night, in the woods foreger with rusty wellwater seeping in our dreams or did we pick up the old familiar path that evening and was it a bit late for us in the garden, a bit night near the hothouse our nostrils, our hands smeared with woods, hands stained with rust from the wellmouth, the smart in our buring ears, the corpus delicti clapped on our ears:

Enrique Lihn greenintegerblog 2008

Now when the first third of the night had sped, Musa arose and repaired to the pit and descended therein when behold, the same two Jinnis had forgathered beside the wellmouth at that same hour and were seated together conversing each with other.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855