Save the Words 16

Some like it hot

Took me a little longer to come up with an idea for this one. JC came up with some standouts this week for sure.

• Agelast (noun) - a person who never laughs; one resistant to humor

• Apricate (verb) - to bask in the sun; to sunbathe

• Interlard (verb) - to diversify by mixing at intervals

• Nidorous (adjective) - smelling of burning or decaying animal matter

• Perstringe (verb) - to find fault with or criticize

Tardigrades

Who’s laughing now?
an agelast 
suffused with 
Narcissus’ gift 
plus an itchy
trigger finger
dare to perstringe?

Flash, bang,
chemistries 
interlard and 
spread expediently
speed of sound
In their wake
a nidorous menagerie 

Bent necked
toward a
second sun, 
apricate 
and rejoice  
for here approaches
the rapture 

A world returned to
survivors microscopic 
oblivious
to the ego of men