Lightduress (Lichtzwang)
Another hybrid word coined by the poet Paul Celan – does it refer to a light amount of duress or the duress that...
Green on green
A lovely description and an idyllic image of an English county.
‘Herefordshire is green on green, lichen on old apple...
A pilgrim’s path
Luiz and I have talked about taking some long walks or bike rides and even doing a stretch of the...
Scrimshank
A playful, crunchy sounding word. Edmund de Waal uses this to suggest all over the place, at random: ‘bricks are...
Bees and trees
This captures what I feel when I see sage and valiant bees and the genius of trees.
‘The earth is...
Negligible
Try it, say ‘negligible’ slowly and see what a crumbly, negligible word it is.
‘His assets are negligible, a word...
Breathturn (Atemwende)
A word coined by the poet Paul Celan.  Edmund de Waal mentions that ‘Celan cannot find words to fit together...
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