Save the Words (Please!)

I’m back! JC delivers a nice little bouquet of 4 this week. Can’t wait to tackle the ones I missed.

• Decurtate (verb) – to cut short, curtail, or abridge

• Runlet (noun) – a small stream or brook

• Scantling (noun) – a small amount; a meager portion

• Tittup (verb) – to walk or move in short, jerky motions, often with a jaunty air

Desert

Stoic
in dust storms

turmoil is overhead
but heat bakes the dead

the creek 
will decurtate
a runlet

wander, 
aimless tittup
each bite of bread
a scantling
of what’s necessary

no matter,
all end
within
the swirling devil