travel

Travel, She said,
was quietly making decisions  
To dance

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'loco.'

abundance

full of rain And moss
There is such Abundance here

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'pluvious.' I wish I'd kept track of, over these last three plus years, how often the Oxford lads choose a rain-related word.

Of the citations, by far the best is from 1870:  "Dost thou not find that this pluvious weather produceth much...stupidity?"

full moon

the full moon
shimmies down the river to
the cosmic music

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The OED word of the day, unused due to the brevity of its citations, is 'aeroponics.'

gratitude

Gratitude makes
events move with
intricate and celestial
precision

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The Oddball English Dictionary word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'orrery.' If that doesn't make your mouth feel full of marbles, I don't know what will. It refers to a mechanical model (usually clockwork) of the movement of the planets.

I am not in Venice, but my mind is. Hence, this collage today.

Yielding

Yielding …
The most perfect flowers 
studied the Bumble-bee

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'melliferous.'

Not to be confused (I did) with mellifluous, melliferous is strictly about producing honey.