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• steve commented on the word favonian

  "Sunday. Heat ripple still with us; a most favonian week." Lolita Ch 11

  December 31, 2012

• steve commented on the word gurrituck

  In his time, this one had little to speak of,

  The softest word went gurrituck in his skull.

  For him, the moon was always in Scandinavia

  And his daughter was a foreign thing.

  From Two at Norfolk by Wallace Stevens

  July 14, 2011

• steve commented on the word adastrium

  from Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore

  And "Yes,

  it's work; I want you to bear down,

  but enjoy it

  while you're doing it."

  Mr. Houk and Mr. Sain,

  if you have a rummage sale,

  don't sell Roland Sheldon or Tom Tresh.

  Studded with stars in belt and crown,

  the Stadium is an adastrium.

  O flashing Orion,

  your stars are muscled like the lion.

  July 16, 2010

• steve commented on the word Habakkuk

  The Past is the Present

  If external action is effete

  and rhyme is outmoded,

  I shall revert to you,

  Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class

  the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.

  He said - and I think I repeat his exact words -

  "Hebrew poetry is prose

  with a sort of heightened consciousness." Ecstasy affords

  the occasion and expediency determines the form.

  Marianne Moore

  July 10, 2010

• steve commented on the word bedizened

  "Bedizened or stark

  naked, man, the self, the being we call human, writing-

  master to this world, griffons a dark

  "Like does not like like that is obnoxious"; and writes error

  with four

  r’s. "

  Marianne Moore 'The Pangolin'

  June 15, 2010

• steve commented on the word veni vidi vici

  one of those recorded pronunciations would help out

  December 20, 2009

• steve commented on the word euphony

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  At the sight of blackbirds

  Flying in a green light,

  Even the bawds of euphony

  Would cry out sharply.

  Wallace Stevens :thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird

  Stanza 10

  July 23, 2009

• steve commented on the word Haddam

  O thin men of Haddam,

  Why do you imagine golden birds?

  Do you not see how the blackbird

  Walks around the feet

  Of the women around you?

  Wallace Stevens

  July 21, 2009