No One Sighs Over Wastrels’ Graves

© KJ Hannah Greenberg, 2026

No One Sighs Over Wastrels’ Graves
Seashell Books, USA.
Forthcoming, 2026.

The intentions of verse’s inventors must include adjustments to cultural prescriptions for communicative form. It ill-serves poets to say one thing while creating something antithetical to that thing or to integrate new experiences so thoroughly with old ones as to render the new ones inconsequential. After all, words’ “significance” is negotiated between writer and readers.

For those reasons and more, No One Sighs Over Wastrels’ Graves is intended to become part of our culture’s conversation, not to redefine events’ worth. It’s up to this book’s audience to judge whether alterations to our understandings need to be made.

Preface
Introduction: No One Sighs Over Wastrels’ Graves
1. Nocturnal
1.1 That Girl without Sleeves
1.2 Insouciant
1.3 Gloze
1.4 Etiolated
1.5 Virus
1.6 If Not the Perfect Sine Wave
1.7 Dear Little Detail
1.8 Tongueless Critters
1.9 Stemwinder
1.10 Recusal
1.11 The Volume of Footfall
1.12 Imprecation
1.13 Abecedarian
1.14 The Ethical Aspect of Interchanges
1.15 Sike
1.16 Vellus Hair
1.17 Attenuating
1.18 A Proper Duke of Devonshire
1.19 Propinquity
1.20 Feelings of Animosity in a Dystopia
2. Matutinal
2.1 The Wave Function of Probability Distribution: Parenting Boys
2.2 Fulsome
2.3 Studies in Ethics
2.4 Wigglefloof
2.5 Hauteur
2.6 Acorns’ Circumflexes
2.7 Meow Music
2.8 Again, Under the Sofa
2.9 Bilateral Music
2.10 Ag-gag
2.11 Unclaimed Baggage
2.12 Schoolbook Rules
2.13 To Arrogate
2.14 Eld
2.15 Fuliginous
2.16 Tenia
2.17 MacGuffin
2.18 A Satire of Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday”
2.19 Gaud
2.20 Signifying in Tough Circumstances
3. Diurnal
3.1 Impressionable Minds
3.2 Rizz
3.3 Palaver
3.4 Translating Semantics into Maths
3.5 Verse and Prose
3.6 Autism and Music
3.7 Verge
3.8 Vetiver
3.9 Ephemeral Joy
3.10 My Research
3.11 An End to Quantum Tunneling: Parenting Boys
3.12 Instructors’ Manuals as Principled Palp
3.13 Supererogatory
3.14 Cell Phone Towers and Their Ilk
3.15 Chatoyance
3.16 Wins by a Lot
3.17 Equanimity
3.18 Sanguine
3.19 Perpetuity
3.20 True Happiness Comes from Inside
4. Vespertine
4.1 Prevaricating
4.2 Glory Hound
4.3 Incommodate
4.4 Literacy and Knowledge
4.5 The Examination of Human Interaction
4.6 Radical Amazement
4.7 Many Appropriate Ways
4.8 Jow
4.9 Apogee
4.10 Aggressive Attempts
4.11 Sarcopenia
4.12 Handfuls of Pages
4.13 Not to Hanker After
4.14 Hokum
4.15 Atwitter
4.16 Heteronym
4.17 Fusty
4.18 Divergence
4.19 Dolor
4.20 Obnubilation
Conclusion: Explicit and Implicit, Immutable Rules
Poetry Credits
Art Credits
Acknowledgements
About the Author
KJ Hannah Greenberg’s Other Books