Word Magpie

© KJ Hannah Greenberg, 2023

Word Magpie.
Audience Askew, USA.
May 2024. Order here.

Sometimes, my verses fall like fishes. Other times, they fly like startled birds. Nearly always, they reflect bits and bobs of my lived experiences. Whether I attempt to associate with besties or with strangers, I’ve discovered that strong encounters influence the ways in which I manipulate words. Even weak happenstances help me deploy a range of rhetorical flavors.

As such, this collection of poems and images, Word Magpie, proffers multiple tastes. Please sip these pieces. Enjoy their explications of sapidity. Pour yourself a figurative decafe or brew an actual cup of tea. Put your feet up. Apparate from your conceptual pantry to mine. Jointly, we’ll sample cultural concoctions whose zips have been sufficiently simmered as to be mostly distilled.

Since society’s activities will forever connect us to each other in ways both propitious and inauspicious, it’s beneficial to swig together. We are the communal heirs of tasty as well as unsavory ideologies. Let’s drink up!

Preface
Introduction: Invention
1.1 A Bazar’s Cacophony
1.2 Dido
1.3 Bloviating
1.4 Random Accounts through Tempera Paint
1.5 Until Differentiating Becomes Impossible
1.6 Objectivity’s Relative Worth
1.7 Argent Answers
1.8 Talk’s Deleterious Ribbons
1.9 The Stuff of Journals and Novels
1.10 Truck Fenders
1.11 A Dearth of Compos Mentis
1.12 Forget What You Know about Love
1.13 In Disgracing
1.14 A False Epistemology
1.15 Jazzed Words
1.16 Sobriquets
1.17 Finding Time
1.18 Most Venues Wax Staid
1.19 The Trouble with Fuzzy Distinctions
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Poetry Credits
Digital Painting Credits
KJ Hannah Greenberg’s Other Books