Novel, button, broomstick, cave + next week's words

Hello, hello, fellow poets and word admirers.  It's been another week and we have just a few more words to add to our new dictionary...redefining the world, one word at a time.  It's risky business.  Just look at how words affect the world around us...to see the world differently with the addition of an adjective.  To hear voices once quelled speaking out in the darkness, loud and clear.  The first understandable warbles from an infant's lips.  More lethal than the tip of the sword, the pen has always carried its own weight in the world.  Here are just a few samples of how we can see everyday objects in a new form, giving them a new voice:

bone tired desert
crooked spine
held by a hand beneath the tents
beneath the sheets
vowels & consonants falling thru fingers
like bits of black sand       (novel)

refusal to believe in time      (novel)

canopic jar   (novel)


door to secrets of the flesh   (button)

eight pupils of red thread
eight different ways to see a spell-
voodoo vision   (button)


greatest treasure of my tomb  (button)

pink dishes from a tea set
all up and down her belly  (button)

jumped over for love
gripped tightly for dust
smooth & thigh worn from flying over cityscapes  (broomstick)

not the only thing I'll put between my legs  (broomstick)

the tortured death
of the man who ate other men   (broomstick)


dark echo of the body   (cave)

barbaric yawp
of earth to ocean
hungry for salt water and sea urchins  (cave)

finger painted womb   (cave)

the city of your final destination  (cave)

empty, silly thing that shines when introduced out of the darkness   (cave)

And that's it for last week!  This week we have:

coal      blue      neck      glow

Please submit your poems of seven lines or less to inkandfamine@gmail.com.  We look forward to your submissions. Spread the word and leave a comment with suggestions for new words!



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