Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15) Vocabulary

foolishness, stupidity, or senselessness

• absurdity

• entrechats

• perceive

• perforce

dance-like jumps in which the performer taps his or her feet together quickly while in the air

• entrechats

• perceive

• perforce

• rime

to understand or see

• perceive

• perforce

• rime

• spread eagle

a variation of the word rhyme

• rime

• spread eagle

• supposed

• taut

a kind of jump in which the arms and legs are stretched out so that the body takes the shape of an X.

• spread eagle

• supposed

• taut

• ars poetica

believed to be true

• supposed

• taut

• ars poetica

• personification

stretched tightly

• taut

• ars poetica

• personification

• absurdity

a poem about the craft of poetry

• ars poetica

• personification

• absurdity

• entrechats

describing non-human things as if they had human qualities

• personification

• absurdity

• entrechats

• perceive

necessarily

• perforce

• rime

• spread eagle

• supposed