sill's

"Tea rooms," operated by American old maids, have poked their noses into these once genuine boulevards ... and, as if giving a further fillip to the scenery, clothing shops with windows haughtily revealing the nobby art of Kuppenheimer, postcard shops laden to the sill's edge with lithographs disclosing erstwhile _Saturday

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

I could slam the door shut and not be knocked off into the ooze by its impact or topple off because of the sill's narrowness.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

What pane bears more, the unseen edge of its imminence over each sill's tense anarch of candles, while the frontbell is ringing a little something, whose wording has not come down to us, we call it confluence or Cincinnati, some home at random under the habit of a snowpeak, pure alp up which the gaze drowns all hands lost, harmonious it wells with grass, grave settlements.

blog 2009

  a hole in space just beyond the sill's rail leaking the dregs of a wine god's song.

Arion Resigns 2010