An Abbreviated Family Dictionary

When two sit together, and face one another, and occupy the same space for a time, and compliment one another, and certain passages open, and certain treasures reveal themselves, gold and lizards or golden lizards crawling from room to corridor to steep step, one upon another sitting together there in the tropical moist, and blood sweats between the rocks or a vagrant sits and thinks or a vendor sells hygiene or trinkets to tourists who sit together and face one another and occupy the same place for a time and compliment one another’s treasures, trinkets, or hygiene there at the peak or is it the base with all peaks lost in the block of time when certain passages opened and certain treasures crawled from corridor to corridor to peek out of and into the o'er grown altar born of tiny, complimentary steps.