Word Garden Word List--Zachary Schomburg

 

Hello my pretties, and welcome to this week's slightly late Word List. In olden times it might have been a Worde Liste. Anyway, our source this time is bizarro prose poet Zachary Schomburg, who writes about weird telephones, strange zoos and odd islands. Think The Far Side but more unsettling than funny. 

All of the words on this week's List are taken from his book The Man Suit. I'm not sure where I found it. It's just there on my shelf, as if placed there by elves. I've read it, on a winter day one year, when my mind needed expansion. Now I bring it to you, set upon a little burgundy-colored pillow, with accompanying fanfare. 

Okay, so, ready to get weird?!? You don't have to, but extra credit if you do, in the spirit of Zachary Schomburg. What we do here is to take at least 3 of the 20 words provided and use them in a new original poem of our own. Then just link up, visit others, then bake your poem and theirs in the oven at 350 for 45 minutes until the edges caramelize. Easy peasy!

And now, your List:

aquarium

aviary

axe-murderer

bear

bullpen

cellists

detective

dove

Leon Czolgosz

loudspeaker

lumberjacks

machines

mailbox

opera

owls

radiant

revolver

snow

telephone

tuxedo