Eileen Tabios
Two Poems from The Masvikiru Quatrains
THE EIGHTEENTH PAGE
–after “cornucopia” by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
legatee: screwball fifteenth
gymnasia: saunter indictable
womanizer: preconceived fire
wheedle: vagary slow-wittedsuffragette: slain mineral
bosun: stagflation hazelnut
acrobat: clip joint
premiere: flagpole cockerbattery: sundae electrical
legalese: colonel seven
sanguine: Laotian streptococcus
evergreen: cyclic terrydesideratum: kiss orthodontist
checkerboard: inkwell forswore
quixotic: logical intuitive
griffin: shrill herbivoregumdrop: jack-o-lantern upbringing
conjugal: intravenous myth
nebulae: gaudiness veer
portcullis: marsupial economistklutz: heron solar
seashore: gentry jangle
audit: worm apron
slenderness: disabuse conjurerantiparticle: exhumation transplantation
masseur: warty Congress
superscript: Flemish bleeder
archenemy: age swizzledenature: flatter ligature
antebellum: lure rim
demobilization: topmost windjammer
marsupial: ovarian transpire
THE NINETEENTH PAGE
–after “cornucopia” by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
amatory: snafu productivity
esophagus: day semaphore
tuition: seismic fullback
urinary: U-boat croupcockfight: steamship October
cusp: sober seedy
birdseed: transubstantiation mien
arithmetic: trench inadequacytumble: pi wow
Madonna: dishrag tote
Taiwanese: v mattock
grueling: specie athleteerstwhile: divider p.m.
pitchfork: resin dressage
polar: mangrove accomplished
espousal: métier incompatiblemarinate: ginkgo Miss
invective: deathlike savoir
revolver: skylark publish
seminary: twitter constabularypelvic: credentials nasturtium
galleon: obduracy aborigine
syllabify: boll artlessness
misjudgment: salsa spineacoustic: sufficiency peripatetic
mascara: barium cop-out
octagon: heirloom pickings
miniskirt: G improvisationPyrex: infantile extrapolate
percale: morale fulminate
crevasse: roebuck bassist
Inferno: strange preconceive