shallow water cup-up, after brennan & for motion

By banalasanything

ending in unnavigable mud – clean white sand, grayish black
mudslides and marsh-slides, sea marks are landmarks, trees
washed south from novia scotia. a double negative, or at least
an inverted syntax. specifically, the word ‘wrack’
is stranded seaweed. everything afloat not owned, jettisoned.
a skiff in the nineteen-sixties, sketchy whites drawn up on a flank.
in etymology, a wild oat or plum, preserved in brine.
use a noun as a verb, like shakespeare: skiff as verb, brown as verb,
white as verb, milk as verb, skeg. “white-ash breeze,” with two
syllables, bo and ah. o, see how she schoons, a schooner let her be!
into sandbanks, or worse, acts of god slam through guzzles and
into gutters. mosquitoes hatch in stagnant ditches, bent grass or
something sinister. sods and brush, kayaks and canoes. gleaming
spits or the marks left by a clam-rake, a genius, so to speak,
from sauntering.

5 Responses to “shallow water cup-up, after brennan & for motion”

  1. Nicholas Says:

    milk is a verb.

  2. Nicholas Says:

    so is brown. it occurs to me that i may be missing the point.

  3. banalasanything Says:

    i was just drawing attention to nouns that were also verbs. they are, according to stein, the most interesting words because they can cause confusion. like her three-word line, ‘milk me sugar’. white is a bit iffy, i realise — inspired by hearing someone ask for ‘white out’ and thinking it had been a decade since i had thought about white out. how it was such a valuable currency in highschool, etc.

  4. Nicholas Says:

    yep, don’t mind me. my sign language name would be the swoosh “over his head” gesture.

  5. banalasanything Says:

    ha. i like your war on clichés, by the way. next stop: cricketers post-match?

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