stanza

“The word stops, the heart dies / The wind counts the lost goodbyes,” goes one characteristically haunting stanza.

They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.

He reads from a stack of loose papers, his hands moving in time with the stanzas he spits like rap bars.

“Obviously, the second half, definitely missed more shots,” said Wells, whose team made 2 of 11 from deep in the second stanza.

The Kings’ largest lead was 22 points late in the third quarter before the Lakers closed the stanza on a 15-5 run.