Anthony Etherin

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WORD FACT To “pandiculate” is to instinctively stretch the torso and upper limbs, typically while yawning. The word lends itself nicely to this palindrome: Pandiculate: go get a lucid nap. #palindrome

ANAGRAM-TRIOLET FOR COLERIDGE, which repeatedly anagrams a line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

WORD FACT To “pandiculate” is to instinctively stretch the torso and upper limbs, typically while yawning. The word lends itself nicely to this palindrome: Pandiculate: go get a lucid nap. #palindrome

ANAGRAM-TRIOLET FOR COLERIDGE, which repeatedly anagrams a line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

Put a ball up. Pull a bat up. #palindrome

Put a ball up. Pull a bat up. #palindrome

To bore not one man, name not one robot. #palindrome

To bore not one man, name not one robot. #palindrome

WORD FACT Just as "curtsy" comes from a contraction of "courtesy" (courtesy→court'sy→curtsy), "fancy" comes from a contraction of "fantasy" (fantasy→fant'sy→fancy). While fantasy and fancy have diverged in meaning, both still refer to imagination and a sense of elaboration.

WORD FACT Just as "curtsy" comes from a contraction of "courtesy" (courtesy→court'sy→curtsy), "fancy" comes from a contraction of "fantasy" (fantasy→fant'sy→fancy). While fantasy and fancy have diverged in meaning, both still refer to imagination and a sense of elaboration.

SUN AND MOON (Palindrome by Pairs) A sun’s lair is a rare moon. More, Ra’s aria is Luna’s.

SUN AND MOON (Palindrome by Pairs) A sun’s lair is a rare moon. More, Ra’s aria is Luna’s.

An anagram walks into a pub and orders: top row gins, dark ales, and a banana rum. #anagram

An anagram walks into a pub and orders: top row gins, dark ales, and a banana rum. #anagram

A palindrome walks into a bar and orders: Murk. Cans. A regal ale. Enigma. Ham. Gin. Eel. A lager. A snack. Rum. #palindrome

A palindrome walks into a bar and orders: Murk. Cans. A regal ale. Enigma. Ham. Gin. Eel. A lager. A snack. Rum. #palindrome

WORD FACT We get “radical” from Latin “radix”, meaning “root”. A “radical solution” addresses a problem at its roots. A “political radical” seeks fundamental change (the term originally implied altering the underlying structures of society). [1/3]

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If I reason, I crumble. I fire a sonic rumble. #redivider

If I reason, I crumble. I fire a sonic rumble. #redivider

DNA (Palindrome) DNA: Hymn in my hand. DNA: Law, as I saw a land wall a saboteur to sand. DNA: Hymn in my hand. DNA: So true to basal law. DNA: Law, as I saw a land. DNA: Hymn in my hand.

DNA (Palindrome) DNA: Hymn in my hand. DNA: Law, as I saw a land wall a saboteur to sand. DNA: Hymn in my hand. DNA: So true to basal law. DNA: Law, as I saw a land. DNA: Hymn in my hand.

ON BREVITY (Redivider*) In a meagre attraction, in a measured ream — I name a great traction, I name a sure dream. (*stanzas use the same letters, in the same order)

ON BREVITY (Redivider*) In a meagre attraction, in a measured ream — I name a great traction, I name a sure dream. (*stanzas use the same letters, in the same order)

Wild, soft wines talk in golden trances tonight — wilds of twine, stalking old entrances to night. #redivider

Wild, soft wines talk in golden trances tonight — wilds of twine, stalking old entrances to night. #redivider

Two Triolets

Two Triolets

No media on, no AI demon. #palindrome

CONCERNING THE TRIOLET The form is short; some lines repeat, but terms distort. The form is short, its meaning caught in metered feet. (The form is short some lines? Repeat.)

CONCERNING THE TRIOLET The form is short; some lines repeat, but terms distort. The form is short, its meaning caught in metered feet. (The form is short some lines? Repeat.)

No media on, no AI demon. #palindrome

CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

CITY SCAFFOLD: A sonnet of no fixed rhyme scheme, composed in iambic trimeter. Each line has exactly 14 letters. The poem's Ts are arranged such that they form a symmetrical, X-shaped scaffold.

THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome) Demand a hill, at solid nadir…. Damn it! One morn, I saw I was in Rome, not in Madrid, and I lost all I had named....

I was looking back at the photos I took here and... Note the small white figure in the bottom right, and the tall dark figure behind it. Fuck.

My Irish Bouzouki

My Irish Bouzouki

Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time. #palindrome

Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time. #palindrome

HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

Ludlow Castle this morning:

Ludlow Castle this morning:

HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome

I am spending tonight at the most haunted hotel in the UK. Woooooo!