my college professor sd
“always write about some thing.” meaning: avoid abstractions, go for eyes that can di- late hair that can rise if it must, etc. or floods that can drown & fires that can scorch, maybe: there’s too much material in this material world . . . synonyms for flood (n): alluvion, bath, (bath?), cataclysm, cataract, deluge, in- undation, Niagara (as in “a veritable niagara”?) overflow, spate, torrent related words: cloud- burst, discharge, gush, out- flow, outpouring flux, washout, cascade, excess, glut, overabundance, oversupply, superfluity, surfeit as seen in: laos (14 dead); niger (57 dead, 12k houses, 5k acres crops destroyed; gujarat (4 dead); most rain ever in everett (wash.): + 330k japanese homes w/o power, post-lingling 7 million people dis- placed by extreme weather events in 1st 6 mo of ’19 – & this pre-dorian synonyms: squall, tempest “to imagine the combination of 200 mph winds & 20-25 ft sea surge, torrential rain power & communications out, & you have – and this is no cliché – the perfect storm” (though it may become repetitive), w/ 17% of bahamians homeless, thousands missing. synonyms for fire: conflagration, holocaust, inferno, blaze, flare-up related words: backfire, bonfire, brush fire, campfire, forest fire, wild- fire, arson observed in: colombia (nr cali), bolivia, brazil, congo, russia, alaska, while 80 infernos blaze in queensland & 50 flare-ups in n.s.w.; don’t bet on soybeans in brazil, reuters implies; river shipping hazardous in e. china, water levels lo; namibia, angola, botswana declare drought emergencies; & they are relocating fish in australia, operation “noah’s ark,” sailing across land in search of more water; & fewest sheep alive in 100 yrs. synonyms for drought: dearth, deficiency, crunch (crunch?), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, scantiness, paucity, scarcity, shortage, under- supply, want – all referring to water, all revealing the inadequateness of words in the lacuna of the eclipsed world _______________ * ambient, atmosphere, clime, context, contexture environment, environs, medium, milieu, mise-en-scène, setting, surround, surroundings, terrain
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I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |