masquerading the iris.
veiled.
plotting is the heart
of a tell-tale.
cover’d
quarter the eyes
hide
in a
in a
suicide-red bathtub
truenorthavenue: "In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, Simplify." h.d. Thoreau