Tenuity

TENUITY

-noun

1. the quality or state of being insignificant or flimsy

2. the quality or state of being slim, fine, or delicate

3. the quality or state of being diluted or rarefied in consistency or density

I often dream

Of being lost

Dispersed in many places

An exercise in tenuity

But keep up

Treading on the ground

Viduous

VIDUOUS

-adj.
1. (formal) empty
2. widowed

Good stories will do this to you:
Leave you out and dried up
Lost in a viduous state
Unable to pick up a new one for a while

Construe

CONSTRUE

-verb

1. to interpret the meaning of (something)

2. (may take a clause as object) to discover by inference; deduce

3. to analyse the grammatical structure of; parse (especially a Latin or Greek text as a preliminary to translation)

4. to combine (words) syntactically

5. (also intr.) (old-fashioned) to translate literally, especially aloud as an academic exercise

-noun

6. (old-fashioned) something that is construed, such as a piece of translation

Words can be construed

Distorted by interpretation

Images carry their own truth

Paupiette

PAUPIETTE

-noun

a rolled and stuffed piece of fish or meat

Not exactly a seasonal treat
Still, paupiettes can be eaten cold too

Affrontive

AFFRONTIVE

-adj.

characterized by a propensity to cause offence

 

She finds most humans

Terribly rough and affrontive

As well as most of her peers

But keeps a special in her heart

For a favourite cushion

Afforestable

AFFORESTABLE

-adj.

having the capacity to be turned into forest

All bamboos have that chance

Of being quickly afforestable.

Let’s go and look for pandas!

Affluxion

AFFLUXION

-noun

a streaming or flowing towards something

Leaves do not care

For affluxion or passions

An insect tickles them