Wane

WANE

–verb (used without object)
1. to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.
2. to decline in power, importance, prosperity, etc.
3. to draw to a close; approach an end.
4. (of the moon) to decrease periodically in the extent of its illuminated portion after the full moon.
–noun
5. a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
6. the drawing to a close of life, an era, a period, etc.
7. the waning of the moon.
8. a period of waning.
9. a defect in a plank or board characterized by bark or insufficient wood at a corner or along an edge, due to the curvature of the log.



I watch
Your breath
Wane

The world
Sus
pen
ded
For the shortest longest time.

Intersperse

INTERSPERSE

–verb (used with object)
1. to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things.
2. to diversify with something placed or scattered at intervals.
























Dream interspersed with thoughts
A meadow scattered with wild flowers
Thought sprinkled with dreams

Clock

CLOCK

-noun
1. An instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.
2. A time clock.
3. A source of regularly occurring pulses used to measure the passage of time, as in a computer.
4. Any of various devices that indicate measurement, such as a speedometer or a taximeter.
5. A biological clock.
6. Botany The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.
7. An embroidered or woven decoration on the side of a stocking or sock
-verb tr.
1. To time, as with a stopwatch.
2. To register or record with a mechanical device.
-verb intr.
To record working hours with a time clock.






















Exploded clocks
Drifting on the winds
Clouds snowing in.

Moirologist

MOIROLOGIST

-noun
A hired mourner.






















A good part of the journalists' crowd
Hire themselves as moirologists
Although they usually prefer to sign themselves
With titles like “analyst” or “consultant” instead.

Gibbet

GIBBET

–noun
1.a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
–verb (used with object)
2. to hang on a gibbet.
3. to put to death by hanging on a gibbet.
4. to hold up to public scorn.






















Roads have forks,
And so have gallows,
Bitter and taunting
For the poor gibbeting souls
Alternative paths flaunting vain illusions.
In front of their dying eyes.

Flux

FLUX

-noun
1. a flowing or flow.
2. the flowing in of the tide.
3. continuous change, passage, or movement.
4. Physics.
a. the rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy.
b. a quantity expressing the strength of a field of force in a given area.
5. Chemistry, Metallurgy.
a. a substance used to refine metals by combining with impurities to form a molten mixture that can be readily removed.
b. a substance used to remove oxides from and prevent further oxidation of fused metal, as in soldering or hot-dip coating.
c. (in the refining of scrap or other metal) a salt or mixture of salts that combines with non-metallic impurities, causing them to float or coagulate.
6. Fusion
–verb (used with object)
7. to melt; make fluid.
8. to fuse by the use of flux.
9. Obsolete. to purge.
–verb (used without object)
10.to flow.




People come and go,
Following this or that or the other
Stopping with no obvious reason,
An erratic flux
Following moons of its own.

Poise

POISE

–noun
1. a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
2. a dignified, self-confident manner or bearing; composure; self-possession.
3. steadiness; stability: intellectual poise.
4. suspense or wavering, as between rest and motion or two phases of motions.
5. the way of being poised, held, or carried.
6. the state or position of hovering.
–verb (used with object)
7. to adjust, hold, or carry in equilibrium; balance evenly.
8. to hold supported or raised, as in position for casting, using, etc.
9. to hold or carry in a particular manner
10.Obsolete. to weigh.
–verb (used without object)
11.to rest in equilibrium; be balanced.
12.to hover, as a bird in the air.




You may envy a cat’s poise
As long as you never trust it.

Atone

ATONE

-verb
To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime one has committed.



Trying to atone for the rot
For the rot of the world beyond
Losing the battle everyday
Everyday decaying too.
Fading.

Meretricious

MERETRICIOUS

-adj.
1. Gaudy, vulgarly showy but without real value.
2. Ostensibly plausible but false, as a meretricious argument, cleverly deceptive.






















He’d been called a meretricious pig before (although never by a witch).

Etesian

ETESIAN

-adj.
Occurring annually.




The etesian fair
Loaded punters with cheap thrills and expensively won toys
Unloading them of funds and bitter thoughts about the crisis.

Gest

GEST

noun
1: a tale of adventures ; especially : a romance in verse
2: adventure , exploit
Also spelled “geste”



The morality of the gest
Did not save the book from dry rot:
Mildewed heroes, tattered infants,
Noble literary zombies.

La Fille de Carilès is a story by Mme. Colomb (Ed. HACHETTE, 1875)

Pellucid

PELLUCID

-adj.
1. Admitting the maximum passage of light.
2. Clear; easy to understand.



Pellucid petals
Doing away with daylight.
Pollen driven tears.

Emit

EMIT

-verb
1 a : to throw or give off or out
b : to send out : eject
2 : utter























Unlikely puddles seemed to emit noxious notions like open doors to unseen universes or a few ghosts' dominion.

Gramineous

GRAMINEOUS

-adj.
Of or relating to grass.




Where the gramineous pest roams
Grass grows again and again
To be devoured once more.
For its sin?

Globule

GLOBULE

-noun
1 a little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
2 (Biology) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscules, minute fungi, spores, etc.
3 A little pill or pellet used by homoeopaths.




We learnt to speak in globules
Defining how much we might say
By how much space we had to do so,
Never querying who
Was the author of our dialogues.

Anomie

ANOMIE

-noun (sociology)
A state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.























What dreadful case of anomie
Had created this riot of ornaments,
This stampede of angels?

Hermetic

HERMETIC

-adj.
1. Airtight.
2. Not affected by outside influence.
3. Relating to the occult sciences, especially alchemy; magical.
4. Obscure or hard to understand.






















In her hermetic prison,
She did not age
Just Faded away.

Pickwickian

PICKWICKIAN

-adj.
1. Marked by generosity, naivete, or innocence.
2. Not intended to be taken in a literal sense.






















I found a love
For Pickwickian figurines
In a corner of my childhood.

Gnathonize

GNATHONIZE

-verb
To flatter.






















Unable to decide,
The mirror refused to gnathonize,
Uncertain as it was of its subject;

Frieze

FRIEZE

noun
1 : the part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice
2 : a sculptured or richly ornamented band (as on a building or piece of furniture)
3 : a band, line, or series suggesting a frieze






















He'd added ornaments to his CV
Until it started to look like a frieze
Singing the gest of some hero.