Like all writers, I like words. I keep a list of admirable words on hand and every so often I’ll pick one and say aloud, ‘Yes, quiddity.’ Or ‘ludic’ or ‘liminal’ or ‘precarity’ or ‘dehisce’. Sometimes it’s the associations: longeurs perfectly evokes an afternoon of idle anticipation before she arrives. For other’s, it’s their economy. What’s better than attenuated to describe how the stone steps of Chartres cathedral have been thinned by centuries of pilgrims or the supplicant-made dips in the balustrades at the Hagia Sophia? Some words are fit and quick: rucked, trillium, buttercup; others slow, their incongruous syllables speed bumps for the rushing reader. Indefatigable is slow, imperturbable also. So in Gwendolyn Brooks’ line, ‘we go in different directions down the imperturbable street’ you can’t help but stop and look about, chin up, before the thing that comes next starts happening.
Image: Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem on Unsplash . Prosery for Dverse where Merrill is hosting and asks us to include the line “We go in different directions down the imperturbable street.”from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire.”
And for your pleasure here’s the wonderful John Coltrane with a love supreme (and we surely all need that kinda love right now).
Peter Frankis writes 
This was a singular effort, jocular without being facetious. 😏
I like what you say about the sound of words–sonorous, for another example. And, you are right about the line.
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I would almost say a cheeky take on the prompt and I loved it. Definitely a lover of words, are you (and most of us who love to write…)
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Nice ending reminding us to keep our chin up before the next thing happens.
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This was a feast for those of us who lov words! Clever and filled with humor. BravO!
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my fav word of the moment kakistocracy. which I think fits the present situation. I hope the thing that comes next is better than we have now.
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I enjoyed your take on the prompt, Peter. I too love playing with words and word associations, it’s something my husband and I often indulge in, and have done since we were children. I agree about the different speeds of words. Do you have a favourite comedy word, like flange?
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Thanks – Yes – flange is going on my list 😊 – I also quite like ‘palaver’. – there’s a poem by by Patricia Fagnoli – where she talks about ‘The palaver of leaves to stop my ears…’ – just lovely.
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I never thought of words as slow or fast, but you are just right. (K)
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I love how you tie this to the way a word feels… I imagine how your relationship with words are the same as a sommelier’s relation to wines.
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a wonderful whirl through words and the way they paint images or twirl the tongue
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