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in Paris,
Art is the long standing right
to Sample perfect color, taste, smell
in the market

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'galactometer,' the tool you need if you want to measure the fat in milk.

ghostly music

A murmurous laughter of wind
arose, rustled on, and died away…
ghostly music

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'psithurisma,' which means whispering.

Nobody does onomatopoeia like the Greeks.

gate

oh, it's delightful
Life

every day
a Gate
to conscious Thought

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'niminy-piminy.'

walk

cloud shortened walk
The moon gave no light

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'walk,' which I figured would have about 14 pages of citations. But no, this is the alternate sense of the noun, with only two Old English citations, meaning 'clouds,' as in "the moon is under walk." Glad that one got left in the dust; too much "wiðerweardnesse" as King Alfred wrote in the 9th century.

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires -
passion & pride in appearance
whilst entertaining real worry
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I cracked up when I saw that the OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'Porteño,' an inhabitant of Buenos Aires.

This was more great street art in the San Telmo neighborhood of BA. I loved the keyboard painted on the gate. That is a real man standing by it, while the tango figures are oversized on the wall.

the poet's sphere

the wanderings
and transformations
of the soul
are the poet's sphere,
in which wholeness is linked to
love and creativity

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'psychopomp.' The definitions aren't what I expected: a conductor of souls to the place of the dead, and later a Jungian term for the link between the ego and unconscious. It would be a lot more fun to play around with an event's psychopomp and ceremony, or a Psychopomp and Circumstance march.

I was psyched and pumped when I saw that La Biela's little napkins took watercolor pretty darn well.

daily work

a Meaningful Future
is Daily work

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

travellin'

a Flash of New
the pure invigorating breeze of travellin'

I'm off.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'monkery,' the way of life of a tramp. Even the Oxford lads can't figure out where that word came from.

crossword puzzles

A person who loves
dictionaries
couldn't cheat
on crossword puzzles
and be unashamed

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'nemophilist,' a person who loves woods or forests.

It's always cool to find a new self-descriptive word.

freesia

bright yellow freesia
kicks up the thermostat
ten degrees