Roundabout

Poet Alastair Reid arranged unusual words into “garlands,” rings that end where they began: What is a Tingle-Airey? A tingle-airey is a hand organ, usually played on the street by the turning of a handle, and often decorated with mother-of-pearl or piddock shells. What are Piddocks? Piddocks are little mollusks which bore holes in rocks and wood, or in the breastsummers of buildings. What is a…