Faded Houses Green

Refreshing the sorely needed weeds along the water’s edge, Horace wished he had a Greek name from deeper antiquity–maybe something of a palindrome, or one he could contort into a palindrome.

Horace thought for a lily-scented moment and realized, “Oh!” that’s a palindrome for the first two letters. Then “car” easily falls out next. That accounts for five. Just need a palindromish word to make sense of the ‘e’. And another and maybe another. In the end, Horace came up with “Horace sleep an ape else car, oh!” Not bad for a brief stab at the bleeding heart of the matter, but far enough from the prize expected of a professional palindromist. So once more Horace set to thinking of great Greek names he could contrive into one great, blistering palindrome. He cycled through Aeschylus, Zeno, Heraclitus, Xenophon, Boustrophedon, Pentakosiomedimni, and left things where they lay.

Horace returned to refreshing the sorely needed weeds along the water’s edge. Wishing. Wishing.

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