Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Body series 10

A list of ten of the most beautiful words in the english language

1) epoch: (noun) the time it takes between my alarm going off in the morning and when I open my eyes and the measure of the sunlight on my eyelids

2) epiphany: (noun) that Thursday afternoon when sunlight poured into the room like honey and I looked in the mirror and noticed the way my eyes were glowing

3) sonorous: (adjective) when I sing in the car with the radio cranked up as loud as it will go and the snow swirling around me the beat and the gas pedal pressed down to the floor

4) serendipity: (noun) the angle of my hip bones against my skin and the musculature of the legs beneath them

5) nefarious: (adjective) the ache in my lips and the pit of my stomach when the wind whispers "kiss me" through the trees

6) ineffable: (adjective) the perfect swirls of dark hair in my armpits and the way they compliment my biceps

7) eloquence: (noun) the sound of each foot slapping the pavement, one after the other

8) effervescence: (noun) the act of my lungs expanding my whole chest, pushing open the cage of my ribs for air

9) ephemeral: (adjective) the way the calluses on the pads of my finger grow stronger with every day I use the tendons and muscles in my hands to hold myself in this world

10) aurora: (noun) this body and this mind in agreement and the way they think "we are here. now"

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