Monday 31 December 2012

Glissade

GLISSADE

-noun
1. a gliding step in ballet, in which one foot slides forwards, sideways, or backwards
2. a controlled slide down a snow slope
-verb
3. (intr.) to perform a glissade






















As the year glissades
Into an icy immaterial end
Beware time frost bites

Sunday 30 December 2012

Fork


FORK

-noun
1. a small usually metal implement consisting of two, three, or four long thin prongs on the end of a handle, used for lifting food to the mouth or turning it in cooking, etc.
2. an agricultural tool consisting of a handle and three or four metal prongs, used for lifting, digging, etc.
3. a pronged part of any machine, device, etc.
4. of a road, river, etc.
a. a division into two or more branches
b. the point where the division begins
c. such a branch
5. (chiefly US) the main tributary of a river
6. chess . a position in which two pieces are forked
-verb
7. (trans.) to pick up, dig, etc., with a fork
8. (trans.) chess . to place (two enemy pieces) under attack with one of one's own pieces, especially a knight
9. (trans.) to make into the shape of a fork
10. (intr.) to be divided into two or more branches
11. to take one or other branch at a fork in a road, river, etc.






















We spoon and we fork
Because life is short
And food is getting cold

Saturday 29 December 2012

Humbug


HUMBUG

-noun
1. a person or thing that tricks or deceives
2. nonsense; rubbish
3. (Brit) a hard boiled sweet, usually flavoured with peppermint and often having a striped pattern
-verb
4. to cheat or deceive (someone)






















She objects to wrapping
All this fuss sheer humbug
To the furry curmudgeon

Friday 28 December 2012

Plication


PLICATION

-noun
1. the act of folding or the condition of being folded or plicate
2. a folded part or structure, especially a fold in a series of rock strata
3. surgery  the act or process of suturing together the walls of a hollow organ or part to reduce its size























A strange oculus
Speaks of plication
Bricks spirited away
Magic wall

Thursday 27 December 2012

Dodge


DODGE

-verb
1. to avoid or attempt to avoid (a blow, discovery, etc.), as by moving suddenly
2. to evade (questions, etc.) by cleverness or trickery
3. (intr.) bell-ringing . to make a bell change places with its neighbour when sounding in successive changes
4. (trans.) photography . to lighten or darken (selected areas on a print) by manipulating the light from an enlarger
-noun
5. a plan or expedient contrived to deceive
6. a sudden evasive or hiding movement
7. a clever contrivance
8. bell-ringing . the act of dodging























Nowadays
Dodging is electronic
A turn of a pen
On a computer screen