Newly Risen Roads
\nA poem of lost words*
\nBy
\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n
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The city streets turned
\nwooze-roaded,
\nthe screevers had no sidewalks
\nto chalk their thorn-crowned saviors,
\nabby lubbers had nowhere nor anywhen to go,
\nstore fronts shattered and ramshackled,
\ncafe chairs scattered (strewn) about the marshy road,
\nthis all befounded and cabobbled
\nthe kedge-bellied snogly-g’eared and the flamfoos.
\nHow can this be? They wailed and gnashed
\ntheir teeth and beat their chests.
\nWe performed the myomancy and nothing was foretold.
\nWe have done nothing! They shouted,
\nand cockroaches scuttling sides of crumbling buildings
\nwith nowhere else to go, echoed: Nothing, nothing, nothing.
\nEach step the people took sank them deeper,
\nUntil the antipodes spoke:<\/p>\n
May we ever cease our endless shail-abouting
\nand davering,
\nmay the dendranthologists be right,
\nmay we one day neeze through new branches
\nspying shiny-sky-blue eggs,
\nmay we cut away each other’s elflocks
\nand brush each other’s hair,
\npromising to sing forth a new dawn,
\npromising to tend awake the world,
\nmay we one day be weeping-ripe,
\nin order that we may go glad-warbling
\nthrough newly risen roads.<\/p>\n
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*Lost word meanings from the book, \u201cThe Word Museum,\u201d by Jeffrey Kacirk.<\/p>\n
1). wooze: marshy ground
\n2). screevers: someone who draws figures of thorn-crowned saviors on sidewalks
\n3). abby lubbers: someone who loiters in a church
\n4). anywhen: anytime
\n5). befounded: to perplex or stun
\n6). cabobbled: to mystify or confuse
\n7). kedge-bellied: someone who stuffs themselves as full as a keg
\n8). snogly-g’eared: handsomely dressed
\n9). flamfoos: a gaudily dressed person
\n10). myomancy: divination by means of mice
\n11). antipodes: people living directly on the other side of the earth to us, with their feet directly against ours
\n12). shail-abouting: to move as if bones were loose in their sockets
\n13). davering: walking around dazed and aimlessly
\n14). dendranthologists: people who theorize that humans emerged from trees
\n15). neeze: to go searching for bird-nests
\n16). elflocks: knots of hair twisted by elves which cannot be untangled
\n17). weeping-ripe: ready to weep, ripe for weeping
\n18). glad-warbling: singing or walking joyfully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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