bared
It's a bleak, grand landscape of bare earth and massive rocks.
dulled
The bookstore is underwhelming, basically a shrunken Barnes & Noble with a selection watered down to what's most trendy. One of the things I like about bookstores is coming across a book I wouldn't have known about otherwise; that isn't likely to happen here.
intoxicant
A teenaged boy plucks a bud from a magnolia tree. "Is this opium?" he asks his friend. An old lady, walking past them, snorts with laughter. She tells them to come back in a couple of weeks, when the beautiful opium will be in bloom. ("But is it really opium?" he asks. She shakes her head and explains that no, it really isn't.)
sunshine
They've turned a part of the park into a meadow with mulch paths. The long grass is soaked in sunshine.
surface
Around the rock clusters, the stream looks like a ripply diamond-paned window.
trifle
A blister is ballooning on my pinky toe, but I don't mind so much, because it's good to be hiking.
uses
She complains how he's glommed onto her, and how he won't stop talking, but she has no problem using him to carry her coat, camera, or backpack as the need arises.
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Saturday, October 5, 2019
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Week in Seven Words #437
creations
They're on the rooftop garden, sketching. Paths made of loose stones coil through the grass and overhanging plants. Blanket flowers burst from the greenness in pinwheels of red, orange, and yellow.
heaped
The art installation is a pile of boots, basically. It's a work of calculated indifference.
intently
A young man on the subway recites his own poetry. It's clumsy, in parts, but earnest. He speaks it with sincere intent and force of thought.
invitingly
To reach the porch of the pink house, you would walk on a path of uneven paving stones, past flowering bushes, under a trellis, and between two tables covered in a cloth patterned with sunflowers.
rehearsed
The children are arrayed before their parents to dutifully sing.
various
The neighborhood is a mix of quaint shops, charming cafes, industrial barrenness, churches, and patches of greenery.
yield
When the weeds are cleared away from the container, what's left is a lone pepper.
They're on the rooftop garden, sketching. Paths made of loose stones coil through the grass and overhanging plants. Blanket flowers burst from the greenness in pinwheels of red, orange, and yellow.
heaped
The art installation is a pile of boots, basically. It's a work of calculated indifference.
intently
A young man on the subway recites his own poetry. It's clumsy, in parts, but earnest. He speaks it with sincere intent and force of thought.
invitingly
To reach the porch of the pink house, you would walk on a path of uneven paving stones, past flowering bushes, under a trellis, and between two tables covered in a cloth patterned with sunflowers.
rehearsed
The children are arrayed before their parents to dutifully sing.
various
The neighborhood is a mix of quaint shops, charming cafes, industrial barrenness, churches, and patches of greenery.
yield
When the weeds are cleared away from the container, what's left is a lone pepper.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Week in Seven Words #384
china
The town is charming and delicate. There's a sheltered dock with a gazebo, and a street with shops displaying quaint, insubstantial things. Only the vehicles seem out of place: heavy, expensive cars and a bus that wheezes to a stop to take us away.
chrome
A dazzling set of motorcycles outside a convenience store. Some of the riders head inside, others stretch out on a grassy slope that leads down to the trees.
consequence
They stand at opposite ends of a coppery pool and play catch. If the ball lands in the water, the game will end.
feathered
A bird drops backwards from a branch, then twirls midair and rockets off.
glade
The dirt track ends at a clearing steeped in early evening light. Logs and flat rocks are scattered around it, as if at nightfall creatures will emerge from the trees to take their seats and hold an assembly.
meter
When hiking a familiar route, he brings a book for the gentler sections. This time it's a collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Another time it was short stories by Chekhov.
talus
Sometimes the path is made up of wood planks or smooth dirt. Other times, it's a jumble of rocks and roots that jerk my ankles in different directions.
The town is charming and delicate. There's a sheltered dock with a gazebo, and a street with shops displaying quaint, insubstantial things. Only the vehicles seem out of place: heavy, expensive cars and a bus that wheezes to a stop to take us away.
chrome
A dazzling set of motorcycles outside a convenience store. Some of the riders head inside, others stretch out on a grassy slope that leads down to the trees.
consequence
They stand at opposite ends of a coppery pool and play catch. If the ball lands in the water, the game will end.
feathered
A bird drops backwards from a branch, then twirls midair and rockets off.
glade
The dirt track ends at a clearing steeped in early evening light. Logs and flat rocks are scattered around it, as if at nightfall creatures will emerge from the trees to take their seats and hold an assembly.
meter
When hiking a familiar route, he brings a book for the gentler sections. This time it's a collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Another time it was short stories by Chekhov.
talus
Sometimes the path is made up of wood planks or smooth dirt. Other times, it's a jumble of rocks and roots that jerk my ankles in different directions.
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