Dictionary (As the Map of Obstacle)
wanlace
Two sprigs dipped in lacquer.
The cracked stock of a rifle.
The grip of a handrail.
wilgern
Cormorant tail of comet
: Invisible and meaningless
Caught in the outer light,
Light which burns in silent ring.
Drab soot.
S O O T
Imagening a hulahoop
Gasping for
The classic tearshape.
swarth
Goldlock glare of
K N I F E
Caught in millstream pool,
Milled to black dust
: Here will they fall in great peril,
Touch a pin’s worth more at your peril.
P E A R L
: A disease in an horse’s eye.
wharve
Waves that valley the sun.
The biting ferry bearing
N NE E SE
: Whimpering a rose,
Paired leaves, into the wake,
Withering island to ness. Pin-pinching
At the stiff sky, dor
And humming bird mathel at
Honeysuckle and trumpet vine.
Beaks spell in rudeness
W R A P T
: Pin noses ’lunking down the horn.
witter
Swim like stargazy
Pie. Omenically poised
At the peak of midnight,
A corner store’s
L O T T O
Sign rifles Bach’s strut
In trafficlights.
Source: Poetry (October 2020)