Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Sinuousness

My friend Lisa recently invited her friends to name words whose sounds they love. Here's one: sinuousness.

Say it, and your mouth hisses from the sibilant s into a puff of cheek to the n held on the top of the tongue against teeth to the pout of mouth with u to the more open O of the ous back to the n into e and s, mirroring the beginning.

Saying the word mirrors the meaning: the circular shape of natural grace.

Sinuousness: this tendril of vine seeking a place to anchor, a pert circle in space, dancing its green exclamation.

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