Word Choice – Coleman Barks Slubby comes from the Dutch, who know a lot about mud, in their lowdown Brueghel-dance ways. Slubby names the miry-slick stickiness where ducks might love sliding into a lake. I love another wet-earth word, sillion. Firmer, the curve of a furrow the plow has just turned over, used only one … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Coleman Barks
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