I'd thought I'd stop for April, but the pleasure of playing with words was just too great. So for poetry month, I'm doing cut-ups. Drawing my vocabulary from the world of a random two-page spread of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia. It can be interesting. And if it gets old, I'll play with something else. Today's words came from Pages 728-729. Entries about hayfever, and head-hunting.
Romance
Every woman knows the danger of spoilage, the elegant isolation of orchid and hummingbird. Erotic, but detectable only by absence, and not even by that. To transfer this soul matter, luminous (a code for sacrifice), involves exile or enemies, underground activity: belief cut in the field while still green then mechanically blown into stacks. Blood and sand, elaborately flamboyant. “Love goddess” is a code for sacrifice pollinated by brilliant worldly contradictions. A limited or comprehensive counterpoint and harmony. The spirit, its sound currency, returns reinterpreted, out on bail, a loose network of contradictions and shortcomings neutralizing the noise. The seasons appear, tied with wire or twine. A practiced symptom, never lovelier.
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