Sirocco

SIROCCO

-noun

1. a hot oppressive and often dusty wind usually occurring in spring, beginning in Northern Africa and reaching Southern Europe

2. any hot southerly wind, especially one moving to a low pressure centre

We’ve boarded all windows

It’s us alone in months of sirocco

Shadow our saviour

Thick walls our sanity

Umami

UMAMI

-noun

one of the five basic tastes, the savoury flavour of glutamates

Lightly poached oysters

Bring a subtle touch of umami

To counterbalance cauliflower

Obstreperous

OBSTREPEROUS

-adj.

noisy or rough, especially in resisting restraint or control

She bitterly complains

[Ever the obstreperous one]

About lack of fundamental rights

 

Lax

LAX

-adj.

1. lacking firmness; not strict

2. lacking precision or definition

3. not taut

4. (phonetics) (of a speech sound) pronounced with little muscular effort and consequently having relatively imprecise accuracy of articulation and little temporal duration. In English the vowel i in bit is lax

5. (of flower clusters) having loosely arranged parts

A week later

They droop about

Lax and languid

Blood drops