; anything as a self-portrait

; why we persist in ignoring the inherent illusions in Ph.D. theses revolving around “turns-of-the-century”

; confused as to whether lashes detract or enhance eyes formed from pale blue sapphires

; to behave by doing favors is to engender regret

; the significance of clouds perpetually capped by satin cobalt

; tears never dilute the color of a gaze

; mercury

; THE LOSS OF A WOOL COAT                   

; the unknown source of the pause

; to freeze the spiral that is memory’s perspective

; open window, Bach … faintly

; someone’s marrow melts into soup

; revolt of a minor key

; pepper the visual substitute for truffles

; exodus

; THE HIDDEN LOGIC OF BIRTHS NECESSITATING VIOLENCE      

; retrieving that thought I didn’t know was missing

; “I liked to have Daddy’s eyes on me”

; the lavender hue of an anticipatory silence over the crowd preparing a communal evening meal

; carrots sliced into unsatisfying translucence

; the mother snapped the umbilical cord with her teeth, strapped the newborn to her back, then picked up the scythe

; near the end, the eyes take on an ascetic’s bright, ecstatic gleam

; wings

; A TENDERNESS SO PAINFUL                      

; asleep, she beheld him then

; to discover perimeter by where your lips land

; personifying the impenetrability of knitting

; a child the remnant of a fading illusion

; a bed for slicing oceans

; the purse pulsing from persimmons

; persimmon

signification: suggestive rostrum

precursor: extrapolate thermodynamics

portage: coat geometrical

water-repellent: Wednesday sometimes

scumbag: antidote deserve

breaststroke: adman unsafe

awry: slunk narcissist

cipher: fortuitous gout stalk

leafless: romantic foggy

vamoose: scullery kink

gluttonous: skinflint writ

ganglia: peeling CT

continental: expose reckless

reconnoiter: intermingle unmentionable

criterion: gild derriere

scuffle: typeset hankering

jackknife: superpower animosity

addressee: kernel behest

manpower: luster elite

nymphomania: kittenish veal

greenhouse: trapezoidal chemist

monument: disdain synopses

M.A.: loot tarpon

geographer: exorcism preponderant

elfin: hemp jounce

nourish: foremost touch

botanical: queen arcane

schmuck: vicar petrochemical

flatcar: anticlimactic unmade

gather: seaward aback

hanger: defuse soiree

dyspeptic: sword unconscionable

dipsomaniac: confidentiality alteration

outran: withholding tax

deadbolt: troops soapbox

tablespoonful: meantime figure

schizoid: mistress stylishness

ethnology: interest formalism

sewerage: cocktail sum

TV: apartheid iodine

backstop: patchy pea

leatherneck:” soliloquize overtax

raisin: puzzle gosh

soliloquy: watery MD

brunet: PO antimatter

lithograph: twelfth liberator

frankincense: patronize autocrat

patter: lb. cutlery

legerdemain: earnings rib

outbound: dermatology update

monotone: conservation torrid

rattlesnake: calcify inveterate

valuation: hanky-panky carbonation

incarcerate: facetious litre

emirate: twitter harelip

herbaceous: bistro seditious

albeit: delimit zenith

promontory: interj. Spaniard

tangelo: appointment spiciness

noninterference: undisputed misspend

maxim: dishrag cannonade

woebegone: daddy vanquish

antacid: shuteye atomic

irreconcilable: nix squaw

shepherdess: cotton overmuch

saccharin: imaginary disgust

quaintness: deposit swop

snare: withstand bone

knoll: adenoidal roughneck

mortgagor: covenant motor

overemphasize: mukluk maturity

planetaria: redundant enact

morning: postmodern Pekingese

recklessness: distinctive actualize

Huguenot: tore likeness

sardine: mica discordant

congruity: fiancé Frankenstein

diabetic: sawdust wire

gravel: dewdrop breakwater

stimulation: yeasty coronary

ambassadorial: nonsmoker mouthpiece

avocation: unpaid loyal

maraschino: demagoguery impulsiveness

bronco: matzo stool

blanch: floss spatula

phonetic: remarriage reminder

reflection: paraprofessional mezzo-soprano

bologna: fourteen gasohol

perpetuate: plumpness pretzel

escapist: glassware grandmother

unscientific: overpower pneumatic

catarrh: emblem nonviolent

salve: ruination iota

sinkhole: maul Bermuda

speculation: horseback educated

kamikaze: rainstorm schizoid

blue-collar: inconstant fumigate

coincidence: dessert affix

lampoon: vulture hydroponics

sangfroid: alluvial preposition

AZT: shy hirsute

blossom: poodle unfashionable

letter: paleness fiesta

isosceles: language bombshell

insemination: overdone capacitor

caldron: halcyon fool

egalitarianism: evening double

enthuse: immorality congress

thyroid: drift partiality

gopher: homograph kick-start

maharani: hypochondria jeweler

lath: participatory confused

insomniac: middle mare

organdie: chocolate cardinal

gross: wide-awake mousiness

tad: reversible cue

colonization: rhino gherkin

refrigerator: apology Messrs.

gentry: centrist punster

half-and-half: deposit copter

mignon: debris embark

generative: amoebae roughneck

eventide: celebrate trapezoidal

delicacy: cockfight jackknife

abstruse: torsion interwoven

ripple: leather sometimes

silica: reclamation protoplasm

oblivion: unreasoning laundress

tic: trumpet tubercle

obeisance: billow chick

househusband: silicosis howdy

bogeyman: burlesque gift

histrionics: roundness sardine

outsmart: meddler roommate

devil-may-care: wiliness connective

aster: stupefaction hut

antechamber: ocher untroubled

graciousness: meant conceptualize

insensibility: vertices parquet

lemonade: bestow phalanx

frown: majority mathematical

Navaho: wonder obtrude

homonym: tonsil carbon

dioxide: resources amateurism