Monthly Archives: January 2010
Those stentorian mountains
Stentorian: adjective meaning very loud. And so we crossed the field. Passed the tin-roofed woodshed and the barn, passed the cows, who bellowed and flipped their tails at flies irreverently. As we hiked up the mountain, the soft wet ground gave way beneath me. I slipped, grabbed at a sapling. I was mistaken; it wasn’t [...]
In honor of Yeats becoming public domain
Termagant: noun, meaning a bellicose person. In some cases, it may refer specifically to a brawling and violent woman. At an impasse: encountered a termagant fembot named Maude Gonne. Said she was a gold-digger. Asked me for my lipstick. Said I didn’t wanna. Wrote a poem of revolution in her honor. Then, she mashed it [...]
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