August 2012
31 posts
Rare Words
I say dysphoria and aureate all the time but the others are new to me whitehotvelvet:
acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists paralian - A person who lives near the sea aureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets dwale - To wander about deliriously sabaism - The worship of stars dysphoria - An unwell feeling aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn eumoirous -...
Orange Was The Colour Of her Dress, Then Silk...
paulaskew:
I don’t know why, but I’m imagining you listening to Charles Mingus and smoking a Gauloises. Everything changes with the dusk; your dress, your hair, your lipstick, the way you move. In deeper light, you become the evening, just as you had been the day. The song’s still playing as you slowly undress, turning into night. You click your fingers and I come.
mercury
then it started raining again, it
got unseasonably grey. i was
no longer a resident here but a
guest looking up at the mountainous
clouds thinking: “where did this
all come from?”. i was the morning
after. the later and the latter. “tomorrow”
is the word i use for “perhaps”. my
internal thermometer has broken.
my insides are glistening with
mercury. my dreams...
The Junior Progression
A @LukeKennard poem remixed using the Oulipo school’s ‘N+7’ technique - take each substantive noun of an existing poem and then replace it with the word seven words down from it in a dictionary. I didn’t just do the substantive nouns, I did various other words too when I saw it fit. I used a really, really old dictionary too. Then, I took the remixed poem and rewrote it in...
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the scorpion and the frog, all parts.
this is from an ongoing project i’m writing called the scorpion and the frog.
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Manchester evenings back when I didn’t breathe with Manchester, buzzing under neon lights until we get back home, where it sleeps under lamps that give a hushed-up glow. We sit on the baclony and look over the back of the city. The natural mordents of your voice better than any music. You’d say...
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