Word Garden Word List--George Hitchcock

 

Hello poets, and welcome to the new and improved yet old-fashioned Word List, now with more Friday! Nobody seemed to be coming by mid-week, leaving the Word List lonely and mopey, so now it has new permanent digs--it will appear from now on on Friday afternoons. 

This week's List is taken entirely from a slim volume of poetry entitled The Piano Under The Skin by George Hitchcock. It's an amazing collection. Here's a sample, called On the Edge:

you're on the threshold he said

take the knife and cut the river

loose from its mooring put away

that syllabus you're on your own

all the monuments have been recited

too often it's time to trim

their beards and slaughter

their stone horses and what is

this tiny cyst in the middle

of the last crusade?

George Hitchcock (1914-2010) was a jack of all trades--an actor, poet, labor activist, publisher and playwright. The volume I have taken your List words from is from 1978. What we do here is to take at least 3 of the 20 words provided and use them in a new original poem. Then just link up, visit others, and marvel at your own incredible virtuosity! And now, your List:

butter

cicada

cinders

confetti

consumptive

exploded

fractions

geysers

gibbering

gong

lions

mandolin

mask

masquerading

pagoda

plumed

revolver

scaffold

syllabus

wag