12.XI.2002 ::: 16.39 st josaphat

I've tried to approach it, tried to write myself up to it, but I can't, so I will just tell you that I was watching the sidewalk instead of where-I-was-going & so that is how I noticed, on the sidewalk, this little piece of insulation: which, for all its color & the delicate flutterings of its little fiberglass threads, I first took for an alien flower.