Running for a Wrench, Gets a Wrenched Knee, 1955 Railroad Signal Dept. Typed Injury Report Japanese puzzle cube I purchased this and a

I purchased this and a few other pieces Pierre Albert Leroux (1890-1959) from a dealer in France that I found online

Otherwise clean and bright and flawless

and a face that feels to me about as existential as they come--exactly right for the bowl of a pipe

which their prior owner purchased at a flea market it Paris many years ago

Running for a Wrench, Gets a Wrenched Knee, 1955 Railroad Signal Dept. Typed Injury Report Japanese puzzle cube I purchased this and aI bought a handful of these hand typed cards from the 1950s documenting railroad worker injuries, this one completed by the Signal Dept. Terminal Division, Boston I believe. Some are more elaborate than others, but each evokes a vivid story through its matter of fact reporting, and all feel like found poetry to me. Here, it is especially the double use of "wrench" that I love our signalman Edward Clark having wrenched a knee while running for a