Monday, May 8
20/20 LEXICON Author: (n.) a primate who strikes bargains with words Breath: (n.) an afterthought until it’s not Currency: (n.) cousin to current, it’s meant to flow Danger: (v.) torn from angels, born of anger Empty: (v.) introduces a present absence Faith: (n.) is a wicker cage holding invisible birds Grind: (v.) is a word that skulks between your molars Hearth: (n.) heart married earth and fire was born Infinite: (n.) a word extending beyond its first and last letter Joke: (n.) a staircase descending upward Knife: (v.) introduces a cutting presence Listen: (v.) the most useful rearrangement of silent Maturation: (n.) masturbation with the B.S. removed No: (n.) how cats say “I love you” Onion: (n.) a translucent root full of tears Permanent: (adj.) is what nothing is Poetry: (n.) a virus that makes us see ghosts Quibble: (v.) when neither side wishes to bite, so both nibble Remember: (v.) opposite of dismember Subtext: (n.) the weird basement beneath the book Tuber: (v.) just say it out loud, you know what it is Uvula: (n.) sounds like a genital, but it’s not Violin: (n.) wooden exoskeleton for yearning Winter: (n.) when seeds play dead and dream of trees Xenophobia: (n.) now available in concertina wire Yes: (n.) how dogs say “I love you” Zoom: (n.) sworn reversal of the Muse, see also: Hell (Michael Bazzett)