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The words:

• Accismus (noun) - feigned refusal of something desired

• Carphology (noun) - involuntary picking at bedding, clothing, or imagined objects, often seen in delirium (also known as floccillation)

• Gloze (verb) - to explain away; to make excuses for

• Inquinate (verb) - to pollute; to defile

• Vespertine (adjective) - relating to or occurring in the evening

The Thanks: JC

The Poem:

Sandhill Cranes

She inquinates
the vespertine 
killing sleep 

severed souls 
still traverse
through night’s deep

I gloze
her motives

long stems 
picking
cruel hems
and 
I’m rocking 
in sweats
sheet carphology 

A cracking
germinal
disc  

If she flew back
my accismus heart
would crow