Well, I’ll go window-shopping in Larousse
for seeds of words. Strangely, they’re not for sale —
you help yourself to what the worlds produce.
Here are the conic sections, there the whales,
the art, the musical instruments, the wigs….
My search is stopped by a picture of the sarigue,
Didelphis, a marsupial of the west,
with young.
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