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Lines, by Martha Collins July 27, 2009
Draw a line. Write a line. There.
Stay in line, hold the line, a glance
between the lines is fine but don’t
turn corners, cross, cut in, go over
or out, between two points of no
return’s a line of flight, between
two points of view’s a line of vision.
But a line of thought is rarely
straight, an open line’s no party
line, however fine your point.
A line of fire communicates, but drop
your weapons and drop your line,
consider the shortest distance from x
to y, let x be me, let y be you.
There is much to see and hear. July 20, 2009
Do you want to play make believe?
Transcendance and Immanence
Antediluvian ~ Third in a series of words I like a lot. April 23, 2009
Although this term can refer to the period before any major flood, it most often means the Noachian flood. And out of that comes its meaning of extremely old or ancient. I love the sound of the word itself — the great downward and backward cast of your tongue on the forth syllable has something of a deluge feel to it, I think. And then, of course, there are wonderful applications such as this example given in the Princeton dictionary: “a ramshackle antediluvian tenement.”
I would caution writers that this is an adjective very difficult to pull off without sounding pedantic. If you want my advice, save it for casual conversation such as, “My, that tenement is ramshackle and antediluvian.”
