rows and rows of porchlights seen from airplane windows

NAME
initrd - boot loader initialized RAM disk

DESCRIPTION
The special file /dev/initrd is a read-only block device.
Device /dev/initrd is a RAM disk that is initialized (e.g.
loaded) by the boot loader before the kernel is started.
The kernel then can use the the block device /dev/initrd's
contents for a two phased system boot-up.

In the first boot-up phase, the kernel starts up and
mounts an initial root file-system from the contents of
/dev/initrd (e.g. RAM disk initialized by the boot
loader). In the second phase, additional drivers or other
modules are loaded from the initial root device's con-
tents. After loading the additional modules, a new root
file system (i.e. the normal root file system) is mounted
from a different device.

(from this here UNIX manual)

Just lost gratuitous et falsely writ (large) paragraphs in re: spring and snow and streches of silence hardening into recognizable shapes; better that way though hazardous to abused scapegoat keyboard.

It has come to a gracious, well-intended routine. To wake not quite quietly enough, to pour glasses of water and stand at the balcony rail, to smoke through The Hours with needlepin fingers (around them each curl fits perfectly). To slip under the door to lie near and away from sleep. From the sleeper, a query and a sigh and a turning over. The waking in the first place from another exhaustion of rote and intention; more intimate is the hour of quiet words preceding.

I have come to find snow and have not been to Montreal. These warm days had me driving to New Orleans with a hand out the window, eyes closed to the sun. Boston means work: small, brick, chilly but cozy with industrious drive and a space heater. There will be no poetry in Fortran nor long drives to distant counties with ashtrays on tabletops. Things antiquated are also immediate. Neighborhoods. Yarn. Vegetable markets. Business models. Plans.

We are distant difficult people and I'm trying. What day is this?


"Well, why don't you say something?"

"What do you want me to say?"

"Anything. Read to me if you can't think of anything to say."

(Arthur Schnitzler)