Category: poems

UNCAP became a surprisingly versatile action word in this round

BUMPY sent this group in a lot of directions: literal rough rides, social instability, fraud, surreal painting, and full-on circus absurdity

MAJOR turned out to be unusually flexible, working as rank, scale, status, consequence, and even a kind of comic intensifier

STREW proved unusually adaptable: things, words, notes, order, even human mess could all be scattered

PROVE turned out to be a good word for poems about uncertainty: suspicion, flirtation, misconduct, writer’s block, petty crime, and the need to demonstrate something to oneself or someone else