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Split (with slight revisions)

by Clara Mae Gregory

cuneal words
split my head
dividing
gracious
from
contumacious-

my thoughts
stuck
in the
pithless
middle

04/23/2011

Author's Note: having fun with some word play based on word study: * cuneal–adj. wedgelike; wedge-shaped. Origin: 1570–80; < Latin cune ( us ) a wedge *contumacious-adj. stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient. *pithless-adj. spineless, cowardly

Posted on 04/23/2011
Copyright © 2026 Clara Mae Gregory

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Charlie Morgan on 04/23/11 at 09:34 PM

...and good play, it is.

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