One of the pleasures of working with language is the sense of discovery: learning a new word; finding a seldom used meaning of a known word; uncovering an obsolete meaning that hints at a word’s historical provenance.
No matter how you hang your ears, there’s a background hum to the world right now that’s hard to ignore.
It’s the Year of the Toad, of Gentle Repose: 2020. The date has a beautiful symmetry, but like 1919, it’s a little buggy. A century ago Nature ran H1N1 in multiple iterations, codenamed Spanish; this year we see the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 #Wuhan.
I can’t say I love a face full of midges. Lake lover, yes: sunrise, sunset, a day-appeasing libation, cob loaf, row boat. But midges, in their lecherous low clouds, waiting to press their faces onto my skin? No.
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We’ve had a little pause in publication here at the Mole due to the editor being knocked down by a Polo; seems both the front and the back of VWs are dangerous.
Copyright 2018 Karin Mora
1. He slept through several snoozes, cancelling the last. The call from his boss finally roused him.
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An MMA friend of mine misread “martial artist” and applied for a scheme which saw him take up a three month residency on Mars. He’s charming and athletic and probably NASA had the final say on who went.
Ground III
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The embarrassment is clear when, through rough sand, the plant exerts itself and ends up leafless, is what the other plants think, diminished in their own way by sparse limb count.
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What was the name of the poet who helped me during Resolute Cliff?
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