WORD FACT Happy Pi Day! The symbol π was chosen to represent the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter because it is the first letter of the Greek word periphéreia (περιφέρεια), meaning periphery or circumference. [1/2]

SOLSTICE (Aelindrome in Pi) 3141592653589 Solstice: new, it evokes old needs and raw senses. Sun rids us: what binds us bids us. What sunrise saw sends and reevokes. Old, new… it entices Sol. #piday

CHEESES (Palindrome) Decide "No edam," I did. I ate feta, I did. I made one diced.

SOLSTICE (Aelindrome in Pi) 3141592653589 Solstice: new, it evokes old needs and raw senses. Sun rids us: what binds us bids us. What sunrise saw sends and reevokes. Old, new… it entices Sol. #piday

FATE OF THE ARTS, Episode 7 This is a reupload of my 2022 conversation with Andrew Hugill and Christian Bök — a special episode on the history and practice of ‘pataphysics. Listen here: anthonyetherin.substack.com/p/fate-of-th...

FATE OF THE ARTS, Episode 7 This is a reupload of my 2022 conversation with Andrew Hugill and Christian Bök — a special episode on the history and practice of ‘pataphysics. Listen here: anthonyetherin.substack.com/p/fate-of-th...

TRIONNET: A poem that, depending on where its line breaks are placed, can be read either as a sonnet in iambic tetrameter or as a triolet in iambic heptameter.

WORD FACT Happy Pi Day! The symbol π was chosen to represent the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter because it is the first letter of the Greek word periphéreia (περιφέρεια), meaning periphery or circumference. [1/2]

CHEESES (Palindrome) Decide "No edam," I did. I ate feta, I did. I made one diced.

Time's a credible dice Time sacred, I bled ice. #redivider

Time's a credible dice Time sacred, I bled ice. #redivider

THE DREAM (Palindrome by Pairs) A dream sighs. I am read.

A REGAL BAR (Palindrome) Regal. A bar. Gin is evil. “O, to help martini gin, I trample hot olives in.” I grab a lager.

WORD FACT A phrasal anagram is a two-word phrase whose words use exactly the same letters in the same quantities. Some personal favourites: Remote meteor Supersonic percussion Integral triangle Persistent prettiness Daemonic comedian (the title of my next poetry book...)

THE DREAM (Palindrome by Pairs) A dream sighs. I am read.

A REGAL BAR (Palindrome) Regal. A bar. Gin is evil. “O, to help martini gin, I trample hot olives in.” I grab a lager.

WORD FACT A phrasal anagram is a two-word phrase whose words use exactly the same letters in the same quantities. Some personal favourites: Remote meteor Supersonic percussion Integral triangle Persistent prettiness Daemonic comedian (the title of my next poetry book...)

OWL (Palindrome) Too held in its tide, tan, a meek owl woke, emanated its tin, idle hoot.

QUARANTINE (Sonnet) Her eyes were red. Her flesh and hair were thin. The air was thick with dread. No hero, led by love, was there to scale that bare and fragile thread. For better truths, our stories lied: a broken flower, the sickly youth Rapunzel died inside that tower.

OWL (Palindrome) Too held in its tide, tan, a meek owl woke, emanated its tin, idle hoot.

WORD FACT A “kenning” is a compound word in which a commonplace noun is described figuratively. Kennings were very popular in Old English and Old Norse poetry. Well-known examples include: Whale-road → sea or ocean Bone-house → body Sky-candle → sun Battle-sweat → blood

WORD FACT A “kenning” is a compound word in which a commonplace noun is described figuratively. Kennings were very popular in Old English and Old Norse poetry. Well-known examples include: Whale-road → sea or ocean Bone-house → body Sky-candle → sun Battle-sweat → blood

QUARANTINE (Sonnet) Her eyes were red. Her flesh and hair were thin. The air was thick with dread. No hero, led by love, was there to scale that bare and fragile thread. For better truths, our stories lied: a broken flower, the sickly youth Rapunzel died inside that tower.

Dairy, mayonnaise sub.... Now, on buses, I annoy a myriad. #palindrome

Dairy, mayonnaise sub.... Now, on buses, I annoy a myriad. #palindrome

INTERNATIONAL SHEEP (Palindrome by Pairs) A nice ram and ewe, asleep, teasing songs in a steeple. A Swede. An American.

WORD FACT “Scamper” ultimately comes from Latin “ex campo” — literally, “leave the field (of battle, for instance)”. “Campo” as “field” also gives us the modern English word “campus”. So, we could say that to scamper is to “leave campus”.

WORD FACT “Scamper” ultimately comes from Latin “ex campo” — literally, “leave the field (of battle, for instance)”. “Campo” as “field” also gives us the modern English word “campus”. So, we could say that to scamper is to “leave campus”.

INTERNATIONAL SHEEP (Palindrome by Pairs) A nice ram and ewe, asleep, teasing songs in a steeple. A Swede. An American.

WORD FACT A “psithurism” is the sound of a tree’s rustling leaves. It comes from Greek “psithurízō” (ψιθυρίζω), which means “I whisper”.

How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

WORD FACT A “psithurism” is the sound of a tree’s rustling leaves. It comes from Greek “psithurízō” (ψιθυρίζω), which means “I whisper”.

How many palindromists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, no?

DEMON (Palindrome by Pairs) One mad demand made a demon.

INTERSTELLAR WILD (Anagrams) We speak of the interstellar wild like we aren’t part of it. She dwells in we who still sparkle—a fettered, skeletal star. We flow in her tepid earth, like weeds, patterns of will personified. We talk, shatter well— written like Death’s pale flowers.

WORD FACT Calypso, apocalypse, and eucalyptus are related, sharing the Greek root “kalyptō” (to cover, conceal). Calypso — “she who conceals”, since in Homer’s Odyssey she keeps Odysseus hidden on her island [1/2]

WORD FACT Calypso, apocalypse, and eucalyptus are related, sharing the Greek root “kalyptō” (to cover, conceal). Calypso — “she who conceals”, since in Homer’s Odyssey she keeps Odysseus hidden on her island [1/2]

DEMON (Palindrome by Pairs) One mad demand made a demon.

INTERSTELLAR WILD (Anagrams) We speak of the interstellar wild like we aren’t part of it. She dwells in we who still sparkle—a fettered, skeletal star. We flow in her tepid earth, like weeds, patterns of will personified. We talk, shatter well— written like Death’s pale flowers.

LADY OF THE LAKE (Triolet) A triolet in anapaestic tetrameter, with alliterative beats in each hemistich (all lines rhyming):

Define my ego: Obese boogeymen I fed. #palindrome

WORD FACT While today it can refer to any feeling of illness or discomfort, “nausea” originally referred specifically to seasickness. This explains its similarity to the word “nautical”: both words ultimately come from Greek “naus”, meaning “ship”.

WORD FACT While today it can refer to any feeling of illness or discomfort, “nausea” originally referred specifically to seasickness. This explains its similarity to the word “nautical”: both words ultimately come from Greek “naus”, meaning “ship”.

ETYMOLOGY LADDER (for Poets) Anacrusis Anaphora Metaphor Metonym Acronym Acrostic Pentastich Pentameter

LADY OF THE LAKE (Triolet) A triolet in anapaestic tetrameter, with alliterative beats in each hemistich (all lines rhyming):

Define my ego: Obese boogeymen I fed. #palindrome

ETYMOLOGY LADDER (for Poets) Anacrusis Anaphora Metaphor Metonym Acronym Acrostic Pentastich Pentameter

SUMMER SOLSTICE AT STONEHENGE (Palindrome) Sun! In my halo, open, I mull its altar: All. I plait its lost light. I lag, emanating: I lay a ray, align. I tan a megalith gilt. Solstitial pillar, at last illumine — pool a hymn in us.

FLOWN ECHOES This composition features a solo, unaccompanied guitar performance, with layered harmonies created using delay effects: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWC...