28 October 2026

words from wordle 1,957

GRIST gave this group a useful split between literal grain and figurative material. Debbie stays closest to the word’s physical origin, moving from sickle to wrist to mill, while Jonesy and Lari exploit the familiar grist for the mill idiom in very different ways. Mark turns the word inward toward mental static, and Mick uses it as material for intimacy.

The strongest poems made GRIST feel necessary to the poem rather than merely terminal. It worked best when it became something being processed, gathered, transformed, or fed into a larger experience.

Mark 3/6
Poem 1
A brain CLOUD forming
STARE into the fluorescents
GRIST for morning din

Poem 2
Brain CLOUD forming
Fluorescent STARE
Static GRIST

Debbie Wilson 3/6
A sickle that’s SHARP
A quick WRIST, a bushel cut
The GRIST mill awaits

Jonesy 4/6
High noon SOLAR CREST
Rays of TRUST and GRIST given
the run of the mill.

Robo 5/6
The CRAMP came from DRINK
The TRIST hurt my weakened WRIST
Felt put through a GRIST

auntie jj 4/6
Poem 1
put TRUST in the CREST
that illusion may have BRAST
GRIST and ale keeps myth

Poem 2
in God we TRUST – oi!
the U.S. has no CREST; that bubble
has BRAST
hopefully, GRIST of dems prevails

Lari 5/6
A Fresh PLANT, clean SHEETS,
They VISIT for MOIST muffins!
All GRIST for the mill!

Mick 4/6
Poem 1
the social guide QUILT:
an EDICT, MOIST with consent
skin-to-skin love GRIST

Poem 2
cool soul QUILT
like an EDICT, wraps in MOIST layers —
GRIST for comingling