This is my list of words

This is my list of words

Random splatters but not without labor and effect

Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle replicating, once correctly assembled, a Jackson Pollock painting.

 

This is my list of words:

Dither, fidget, fettuccine, torpid, dereliction,

fracas.

 

Neophyte, noxious,

staccato.

 

Decolletage, vociferous, de jure, nascent, miasma.

 

Yeti.

 

Circa, compendium, transilient,

Rapt.

 

Esoteric.

 

Lampoon.

 

Fortuitous, fait accompli, invective.

 

Emblazon, precocious, ballyhoo, dotage,

posthumous, unanimity, aperitif.

 

Feisty, agrarian.

 

Strafe.

 

Talisman, altimeter, morphology, wrangle, antediluvian,

simian, gadfly.

 

Phlegmatic, ad hominem, rankle, polemic.

 

Bailiwick.

 

Hippodrome.

 

Apocryphal, hobnob,

treatise, prosthesis,

osmosis, retinue, bumpkin.

 

Nimbus, cantankerous, botch.

 

Proponent.

 

Egregious, unsavory, insipid,

pirouette.

 

Depraved, betrothed, ameliorate, trounce.

 

Premise.

 

Tumble into the maelstrom and swallow the patterns that leap at you--trounce, agrarian! --pirouette, you simian gadly!

 

 (Circa 2004)