Archive for the ‘Words’ Category

Entry 487 — Just-New and New

Friday, August 26th, 2011

 

I’m always feeling more words than we have are needed, even for simple things that have gotten along with just a few words for a long time.  For instance, I now want an adjective to describe something that is . . . “brand-new,” and I guess that’s it.  I want to distinguish such a things from something that has been new for a while.  Visual poetry has been new for centuries, for instance, but only became importantly new a hundred years or so ago.  I guess it’s on the verge of being neither new nor old at the moment.

Note: I’ve decided I need to revise the poem I posted yesterday.  Too much gray in it.