For Amy
Close your eyes and think of someplace.
No, I can't take you but I'll try and paint.
Only I wish, all the colours you see,
I have on my palette before you dream.
Lost in the woods
The traveller unnamed
Felt quite at home
Found a mysterious book
In language unknown
He read anyway
Saw a lit lamp afar
A flea-bitten shack
He walked away
Reached the end of woods
Finished the book
Didn't like the end
ci•pher (also cy•pher) /ˈsī-fər/ noun
1 a secret way of writing, especially one in which a set of letters or symbols is used to represent others
2 a code: a message in cipher
3 (formal, disapproving) a person or thing of no importance.
4 (BrE) the first letters of sb’s name combined in a design and used to mark things.
— Middle English cifre, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic ṣifr, from ṣafira, to be empty, translation of Sanskrit śūnyam.
