Vivid

VIVID

–adj.
1. strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc..
2. full of life; lively; animated.
3. presenting the appearance, freshness, spirit, etc., of life; realistic.
4. strong, distinct, or clearly perceptible.
5. forming distinct and striking mental images.




In my old notebook
Tired poems and accounts
Vie for attention,
Vivid picture calling cards
And the address of a Guy.

Tingle

TINGLE

–verb (used without object)
1. to have a sensation of slight prickles, stings, or tremors, as from cold, a sharp blow, excitement, etc..
2. to cause such a sensation.
–noun
3. a tingling sensation.
4. the tingling action of cold, a blow, excitement, etc.






















Lips tingling
Just a hint of red pepper
Music of spices.

Truffle

TRUFFLE

–noun
1. any of several subterranean, edible, ascomycetous fungi of the genus Tuber.
2. any of various similar fungi of other genera.
3. a candy made of soft chocolate, shaped into a ball and dusted with cocoa, or sometimes a three-layered cube of light and dark chocolate.






















Truffle slices
An extravagant garnish
Yet disappointing.

Poppy

POPPY

–noun
1. any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers.
2. any of several related or similar plants, as the California poppy or the prickly poppy.
3. an extract, as opium, from such a plant.
4. an orange red colour resembling scarlet.
5. Architecture. Also poppyhead - a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
6. an artificial flower resembling a poppy, especially one received as evidence of a contribution to a fund for disabled war veterans.
—Idiom
7. tall poppy, Australian. someone of pre-eminence or with a large income; important and powerful person.



She dreamt of poppies
For all the hearts won and saved

Rough
Colourful
Silky
Dreamy

Not knowing she was one
Already.

Badger

BADGER

–noun
1. any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
2. the fur of this mammal.
3. Australian.
a. a wombat.
b. any of several insectivorous and herbivorous marsupials of the family Peramelidae, of Australia and New Guinea; some endangered.
4. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin (the Badger State) (used as a nickname).
5. a swab-like device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains.
–verb (used with object)
6. to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag























Oh the fate,
The irony,
That should make this gentle creature's fur
A tool to badger his human enemy's pelt!

Than

THAN

–conjunction
1. (used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison).
2. (used after some adverbs and adjectives expressing choice or diversity, such as other, otherwise, else, anywhere, or different, to introduce an alternative or denote a difference in kind, place, style, identity, etc.).
3. (used to introduce the rejected choice in expressions of preference)
4. except; other than.
5. when.
–preposition
6. in relation to; by comparison with (usually followed by a pronoun in the objective case)























“Get bigger than me first,
Then you might be allowed some demands.”

“I'd sooner ignore you than respond to this.
I'll just pretend I am made of resin and marble instead.”

Edge

EDGE

–noun
1. a line or border at which a surface terminates.
2. a brink or verge.
3. any of the narrow surfaces of a thin, flat object.
4. a line at which two surfaces of a solid object meet.
5. the thin, sharp side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon.
6. the sharpness proper to a blade.
7. sharpness or keenness of language, argument, tone of voice, appetite, desire, etc.
8. British Dialect. a hill or cliff.
9. an improved position; advantage.
10 Cards.
a. advantage, especially the advantage gained by being the age or eldest hand.
b. also: eldest hand - the player on the dealer's left.
11.Ice Skating. one of the two edges of a skate blade where the sides meet the bottom surface, made sharp by carving a groove on the bottom.
12.Skiing. one of the two edges on the bottom of a ski that is angled into a slope when making a turn.
–verb (used with object)
13.to put an edge on; sharpen.
14.to provide with an edge or border: to edge a terrace with shrubbery; to edge a skirt with lace.
15.to make or force (one's way) gradually by moving sideways.
16.Metalworking.
a. to turn (a piece to be rolled) onto its edge.
b. to roll (a piece set on edge).
c. to give (a piece) a desired width by passing between vertical rolls.
d. to rough (a piece being forged) so that the bulk is properly distributed for final forging.
–verb (used without object)
17.to move sideways.
18.to advance gradually or cautiously






















The grump
On the edge of the fridge
Dreaming of retribution.

Confine

CONFINE

-verb
1. to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict.
2. to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.
–noun
3. Usually, confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
4. Often, confines. region; territory.
5. Archaic. Confinement
6. Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.






















To
Hide,
Confine,
Not smother:
Think cure, gardening.
Kept into the dark they should bloom,
While thoughts scattered about the world just fritter away.

Bucolic

BUCOLIC

-adj.
1. of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral.
2. of, pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.
–noun
3. a pastoral poem.
4. Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic.




The mind...
Loves toying with the bucolic,
Chewing words over and over,
Results often mere cow pies.

Indurate

INDURATE

–verb (used with object)
1. to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.:.
2. to make callous, stubborn, or unfeeling.
3. to inure; accustom.
4. to make enduring; confirm; establish.
–verb (used without object)
5. to become hard; harden.
6. to become established or confirmed.
–adj.
7. hardened; unfeeling; callous; inured.




Indurate love
Gone callous,
Creviced hands and lips
Harsh, splinter-prone, words.

Where has the transient gentleness gone
In all these rock hard certitudes?

Over-grown love
Gone to seed
Tall and stringy,
Nasty weed.

What has become of the tender bud
In this obstinate garden infestation?

Patina

PATINA

–noun
1. a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value.
2. a similar film or colouring appearing gradually on some other substance.
3. a surface calcification of implements, usually indicating great age.






















Verdigris
Patina of your dreams
Toxic and inebriating
Like recovered treasures

Bank

BANK

–noun
1. a long pile or heap; mass: a bank of earth; a bank of clouds.
2. a slope or acclivity.
3. Physical Geography. the slope immediately bordering a stream course along which the water normally runs.
4. a broad elevation of the sea floor around which the water is relatively shallow but not a hazard to surface navigation.
5. Coal Mining. the surface around the mouth of a shaft.
6. Also called cant, superelevation. the inclination of the bed of a banked road or railroad.
7. Aeronautics. the lateral inclination of an aircraft, esp. during a turn.
8. Billiards, Pool. the cushion of the table.
–verb (used with object)
9. to border with or like a bank; embank.
10.to form into a bank or heap (usually followed by "up").
11.to build (a road or railroad track) with an upward slope from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.
12.Aeronautics. to tip or incline (an air plane) laterally.
13.Billiards, Pool.
a. to drive (a ball) to the cushion.
b. to pocket (the object ball) by driving it against the bank.
14.to cover (a fire) with ashes or fuel to make it burn long and slowly.
–verb (used without object)
15.to build up in or form banks, as clouds or snow.
16.Aeronautics. to tip or incline an airplane laterally.
17.Horology. (of a lever or balance) to be halted at either end of its oscillation by striking a pin or the like.
18.(of a road or railroad track) to slope upward from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.

–noun
1. an institution for receiving, lending, exchanging, and safeguarding money and, in some cases, issuing notes and transacting other financial business.
2. the office or quarters of such an institution.
3. Games.
a. the stock or fund of pieces from which the players draw.
b. the fund of the manager or the dealer.
4. a special storage place.
5. a store or reserve.
6. Obsolete.
a. a sum of money, esp. as a fund for use in business.
b. a money changer's table, counter, or shop.
–verb (used without object)
7. to keep money in or have an account with a bank.
8. to exercise the functions of a bank or banker.
9. Games. to hold the bank.
–verb (used with object)
10.to deposit in a bank

–noun
1. an arrangement of objects in a line or in tiers.
2. Music. a row of keys on an organ.
3. a row of elevator cars, as in a hotel or high-rise office building.
4. a bench for rowers in a galley.
5. a row or tier of oars.
6. the group of rowers occupying one bench or rowing one oar.
7. Printing.
a. (formerly) a bench on which sheets are placed as printed.
b. Also called, especially British, random. the sloping work surface at the top of a compositor's workbench.
c. a table or rack on which type material is stored before being made up in forms.
8. Also called deck. Journalism. a part of a headline containing one or more lines of type, especially a part that appears below the main part.
9. Electricity. a number of similar devices connected to act together: a bank of transformers; a bank of resistors.
–verb (used with object)
10.to arrange in a bank






















Banked seats
Waiting for callers.
Spring drizzle.

Furtive

FURTIVE

–adj.
1. taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret.
2. sly; shifty























Time
That furtive thief
Took away colours
From your cheeks
Fading to sepia.

Lambent

LAMBENT

-adj.
1. Playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering
2. Softly bright or radiant; luminous;
3. Light and brilliant























Lambent marble
Hardly containing the light within
The ecstasy that burns the flesh
And sears the soul.

Quantum

QUANTUM

-noun
1. quantity or amount.
2. a particular amount.
3. a share or portion.
4. a large quantity; bulk.
5. Physics.
a. the smallest quantity of radiant energy, equal to Planck's constant times the frequency of the associated radiation.
b. the fundamental unit of a quantized physical magnitude, as angular momentum.
–adj.
6. sudden and significant























Reflections from a dirty mirror
Telling rouged and bejewelled lies
Without a quantum of shame.

Plethora

PLETHORA

-noun
1. overabundance; excess
2. Pathology Archaic. a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood.




























A plethora of memories clogs my veins
The weight of those ghosts pulling me down
Is this age?

Prude

PRUDE

-noun
A person who is overly concerned with propriety or decorum.



One could consider
Exposing cats as prudes.
Or maybe not.

Gloat

GLOAT

–verb (used without object)
1. to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction.
–noun
2. an act or feeling of gloating.






















That feeling:
Paper in my hand
Far more to gloat over
Than digital words.

Incipient

INCIPIENT

–adj.
beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage




Incipient year,
Bursting at the seams,
Eager to go on
And bloom

Happy Budding New Year!

Pother

POTHER

-noun
1. A commotion or fuss.
2. Mental turmoil.
3. A smothering cloud of dust or smoke.
-verb tr.
4. To confuse or worry someone.
-verb intr.
5. To worry or fuss.



Festive pother
Howling in my ears.
I can't hear the snow sing.

Snare

SNARE

–noun
1. a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
2. anything serving to entrap or entangle the unwary; trap.
3. Surgery. a wire noose for removing tumours or the like by the roots or at the base.
–verb (used with object)
4. to catch with a snare; entangle.
5. to catch or involve by trickery or wile

–noun
1. one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiralled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.




What is left of our souls
Caught in a snare of dreams?
Two crows fighting over carrion,
A handful of sand
Shining in the hand of time.

Eject

EJECT

–verb (used with object)
1. to drive or force out; expel, as from a place or position.
2. to dismiss, as from office or occupancy.
3. to evict, as from property.
4. to throw out, as from within; throw off.
–verb (used without object)
5. to propel oneself from a damaged or malfunctioning airplane, as by an ejection seat























The sea drove against the rocks
As if trying to eject
Frothy rage, unspent passion
For some treacherous mermaid.

Scrawl

SCRAWL

–verb (used with object)
1. to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner.
–verb (used without object)
2. to write awkwardly, carelessly, or illegibly.
–noun
3. awkward, careless, or illegible handwriting.
4. something scrawled, as a letter or a note.























To
Crawl
Under
Your
Skin
Scrawling my name in
To make you mine,
Breathing in your perfume.

Tide

TIDE

–noun
1. the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
2. the inflow, outflow, or current of water at any given place resulting from the waves of tides.
3. flood tide.
4. a stream or current.
5. anything that alternately rises and falls, increases and decreases, etc.
6. current, tendency, or drift, as of events or ideas.
7. any extreme or critical period or condition.
8. a season or period in the course of the year, day, etc. (now used chiefly in combination)
9. Ecclesiastical. a period of time that includes and follows an anniversary, festival, etc.
10.Archaic. a suitable time or occasion.
11.Obsolete. an extent of time.
–verb (used without object)
12.to flow as the tide; flow to and fro.
13.to float or drift with the tide.
–verb (used with object)
14.to carry, as the tide does.

–verb (used without object)
Archaic.
1. To happen or befall.























Tide of ideas
Slurping away at time.
Day rises.

Maelstrom

MAELSTROM

–noun
1.a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
2.a restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs
3.(initial capital letter ) a famous hazardous whirlpool off the NW coast of Norway.






















A maelstrom of
Haphazard incantations
Created a portal
In the old temple,
Swallowing
Twenty seven hapless tourists
And two smirking camels.

Yuletide

YULETIDE

–noun
1. the Christmas season.
–adj.
2. of or pertaining to the Christmas season.



Yuletide ornaments
Forgotten and unloved.
Darkness has eaten us all.


Never mind the gloom!
Best wishes too all.

Tepid

TEPID

-adj.
1. moderately warm; lukewarm.
2. characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm:






















Golden sand tattoos,
Washed away in tepid waves
And salt on your skin.

Implacable

IMPLACABLE

-adj.
not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable






















Implacable rain,
Dying leaves clogging up drains:
Streets hiss and gurgle.

Anomaly

ANOMALY

–noun
1. a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
2. someone or something anomalous.
3. an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.
4. an incongruity or inconsistency.
5. Astronomy. a quantity measured in degrees, defining the position of an orbiting body with respect to the point at which it is nearest to or farthest from its primary.
6. Meteorology. the amount of deviation of a meteorological quantity from the accepted normal value of that quantity.
7. Grammar. irregularity.



With him,
Anomaly was the norm
Such was the delight he took
In his inherent uniqueness.

Background using a picture by Tom Check

Evanescent

EVANESCENT

–adj.
1. vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
2. tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.






















Evanescent forms
Capture her fleeting focus.
Warm heater mirages.

Postiche

POSTICHE

–adj.
1. superadded, esp. inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
2. artificial, counterfeit, or false.
–noun
3. an imitation or substitute.
4. pretence; sham.
5. a false hairpiece.






















He
Stole
A mask of gorilla
On the run,
To stage
An impromptu spoof
Of Euripides’ Medea
At a party:
Posthaste pastiche
With a postiche.

Allay

ALLAY

–verb (used with object)
1. to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
2. to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate



To hold your hand,
Steady your heart beat,
Allay untold worries,
Beat up the monsters in your closet:
That is love.

Bench

BENCH

–noun
1. a long seat for several persons.
2. a seat occupied by an official, especially a judge.
3. such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.
4. the office or dignity of various other officials, or the officials themselves.
5. Sports.
a. the seat on which the players of a team sit during a game while not playing.
b. The quality and number of the players of a team who are usually used as substitutes.
6. Informal.: Benchpress - A lift in weightlifting that is executed from a horizontal position on a bench, in which the weight is lifted from the chest to arm's length and then lowered back to the chest.
7. Also called workbench - the strong worktable of a carpenter or other mechanic.
8. a platform on which animals are placed for exhibition, especially at a dog show.
9. a contest or exhibition of dogs; dog show.
10.Physical Geography. a shelflike area of rock with steep slopes above and below.
11.Mining. a step or working elevation in a mine.
12.Also called berm - any level strip of ground at the summit or sides, or along the base, of a slope. .
–verb (used with object)
13.to furnish with benches.
14.to seat on a bench or on the bench.
15.to place (a show dog or other animal) in exhibition.
16.to cut away the working faces of (a mine or quarry) in benches.
17.Sports. to remove from a game or keep from participating in a game






















You and I
Reading on a bench
Apart yet together
Bliss.

Perspective

PERSPECTIVE

–noun
1. a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.
2. a picture employing this technique, especially one in which it is prominent.
3. a visible scene, especially one extending to a distance; vista.
4. the state of existing in space before the eye.
5. the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship.
6. the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship
7. a mental view or prospect:.
–adj.
8. of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.






















Perspective
Is but a room
With a view.
A point of view

Background picture - in its original state - by MacJewell

Voyage

VOYAGE

–noun
1. a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
2. a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.
3. a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.
4. Often, voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself.
5. Obsolete. an enterprise or undertaking.
–verb (used without object)
6. to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.
–verb (used with object)
7. to traverse by a voyage






















Time
Voyage
Along a line
Ouroboros
Life

Background from an original by Rubyblossom

Glare

GLARE

–noun
1. a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
2. a fiercely or angrily piercing stare.
3. dazzling or showy appearance; showiness.
–verb (used without object)
4. to shine with or reflect a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
5. to stare with a fiercely or angrily piercing look.
6. Archaic. to appear conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.
–verb (used with object)
7. to express with a glare



A fierce glare
Dazzling worlds into submission.
Cold ice in my veins.

Shōki was created by Okumura Masanobu

Paucity

PAUCITY

-noun
1 fewness in number.
2 nearly lacking; dearth.



Paucity of sentiment,
Straining life to a maximum:
So much love, in theory,
Yet so little of the real thing
To go by.


Background picture by Piotr Zurek

Cookie

COOKIE

–noun
1. a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet) and baked.
2. Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
3. Slang.
a. a person: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
b. an alluring young woman.
4. Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.
5. South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
6. Scot. a bun.






















Autumn
Perfect excuse
To nibble on cookies
Especially if shaped like leaves.
Pleasure.

Rhopalic

RHOPALIC

-adj.
Having each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.



I
Do
Not
Live
madly
- Really -
Although...
Strangely
Soliciting
Distraction.

Background built from two images by Rubyblossom

Devour

DEVOUR

–verb (used with object)
1. to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
2. to consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly.
3. to engulf or swallow up.
4. to take in greedily with the senses or intellect.
5. to absorb or engross wholly






















Evening has fallen
Upon exhausted pilgrims.
Darkness devours light.

Aprosexia

APROSEXIA

-noun
abnormal inability to sustain attention






















He claimed he couldn’t possibly have
Something as preposterous as aprosexia,
Lack of attention being normal for a cat…
Oh, look! Grasshopper!

Stroke

STROKE

–noun
1. the act or an instance of striking, as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; a blow.
2. a hitting of or upon anything.
3. a striking of a clapper or hammer, as on a bell.
4. the sound produced by this.
5. a throb or pulsation, as of the heart.
6. Also called apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident. Pathology. a blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing inadequate oxygen supply and, depending on the extent and location of the abnormality, such symptoms as weakness, paralysis of parts of the body, speech difficulties, and, if severe, loss of consciousness or death.
7. something likened to a blow in its effect, as in causing pain, injury, or death; an attack of apoplexy or paralysis.
8. a destructive discharge of lightning.
9. a vigorous movement, as if in dealing a blow.
10.Sports. a hitting of a ball, as by the swing of a racquet in tennis or the controlled jabbing or thrusting with the cue in pool and billiards.
11.a single complete movement, esp. one continuously repeated in some process.
12.Machinery.
a. one of a series of alternating continuous movements of something back and forth over or through the same line.
b. the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction.
c. the distance traversed in such a movement.
d. a half revolution of an engine during which the piston travels from one extreme of its range to the other.
13.Swimming.
a. a type or method of swimming.
b. each of the successive movements of the arms and legs in propelling the body through the water.
14.Rowing.
a. a single pull of the oar.
b. the manner or style of moving the oars.
c. Also called stroke oar. the crew member nearest to the stern of the boat, to whose strokes those of the other crew members must conform.
15.a movement of a pen, pencil, brush, graver, or the like.
16.a mark traced by or as if by one movement of a pen, pencil, brush, or the like.
17.a distinctive or effective touch in a literary composition.
18.a single or minimal act, piece, or amount of work, activity, etc.
19.an attempt to attain some object.
20.a measure adopted for a particular purpose.
21.a keystroke.
22.a feat or achievement.
23.a sudden or chance happening, as of luck or fortune.
–verb (used with object)
24.to mark with a stroke or strokes, as of a pen; cancel, as by a stroke of a pen.
25.Rowing.
a. to row as a stroke oar of (a boat or crew).
b. to set the stroke for the crew of (a boat).
26.Sports. to hit (a ball), as with a deliberate, smooth swing of a bat or club.

–verb (used with object)
1. to pass the hand or an instrument over (something or somebody) lightly or with little pressure; rub gently, as in soothing or caressing.
2. Informal. to promote feelings of self-approval in; flatter.
–noun
3. an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.






















In the air
The first stroke of frost
Paints wild lace and ferns
On my car’s windows

Further

FURTHER

-adv.
1. at or to a greater distance; farther.
2. at or to a more advanced point; to a greater extent.
3. in addition; moreover.
–adj.
4. more distant or remote; farther.
5. more extended.
6. additional; more.
–verb (used with object)
7. to help forward (a work, undertaking, cause, etc.); promote; advance; forward



Semi interment had furthered decay
Gratifying her with a smallpoxed face
She had not been meant to boast.
She smiled through the outrage, though,
Knowing to be still far more beautiful
Than the tourists that gaped at her each day.

Saucy

SAUCY

-adj.
1. impertinent; insolent.
2. pert; boldly smart



She relished in being saucy
Her mind incredibly pert and sharp:
My heart still hurts from old letters she sent
Mirth and sorrow brought together
In a most outrageous bouquet.

Lighthouse

LIGHTHOUSE

-noun
1. a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc.
2. either of two cylindrical metal towers placed forward on the forecastle of the main deck of a sailing ship, to house the port and starboard running lights.



Your love guides me well
Through torment and calm alike.
Focus in the night.
Clearing out the waves of life
With your smile for a lighthouse.

Crown Point Lighthouse appears courtesy of The Library of Congress

Kvetch

KVETCH

-noun
1. a person who complains a great deal.
2. a complaint.
-verb
3. complain.






















Infernal yowls hiss:
Winds kvetching at my window.
Chastised leaves whimper.

Rapporteur

RAPPORTEUR

-noun
1. Someone appointed by an organization, group, or committee to investigate or monitor an issue, and compile and present the findings.
2. One who is designated to record the deliberations of a meeting.























The rapporteur had gone a little overboard
Going graphic where a mere memo might have sufficed.

Wainscot

WAINSCOT

–noun
1. wood, especially oak and usually in the form of panelling, for lining interior walls.
2. the lining itself, especially as covering the lower portion of a wall.
3. a dado, esp. of wood, lining an interior wall.
4. British. oak of superior quality and cut, imported from the Baltic countries for fine woodwork.
–verb (used with object)
5. to line the walls of (a room, hallway, etc.) with or as if with woodwork






















An inside-out house:
Wainscot on the outside;
Wild dreams roaming inside,
Like so many indomitable winds.

Samurai

SAMURAI

-noun
1. a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.
2. a retainer of a daimyo.























Paper samurai
Unravelling on the wall
Robbed of sword by rain.

Nimble

NIMBLE

-adj.
1. quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid.
2. quick to understand, think, devise, etc.
3. cleverly contrived






















Nimble dancers
In the flickering light
Celebrating.
Sun breaking free from darkness
Promises of life, once more.