Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 3

This list covers "South," "'N'em," and "Given to Rust."
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  1. dialectic
    a contradiction of ideas that determines their interaction
    I returned to a stand of pines,
    bone-thin phalanx

    flanking the roadside, tangle
    of understory—a dialectic of dark

    and light
  2. raze
    tear down so as to make flat with the ground
    mangrove, live oak, gulfweed
    razed and replaced by thin palms
  3. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
    palmettos—symbols of victory
    or defiance
  4. generation
    group of genetically related organisms in a line of descent
    as slave legend goes—each boll
    holding the ghosts of generations
  5. monument
    a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
    Where the roads, buildings, and monuments
    are named to honor the Confederacy
  6. unplug
    pull the plug of and render inoperable
    They said to say goodnight
    And not goodbye, unplugged
    The TV when it rained.
  7. decision
    a position or opinion reached after consideration
    They hid
    Money in mattresses
    So to sleep on decisions.
  8. sweat
    excrete salty fluid through the pores in the skin
    They could sweat a cold out
    Of you.
  9. century
    a period of 100 years
    Then another century came.
    People like me forgot their names.
  10. giddy
    exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
    I can’t stop tonguing them, my teeth.
    Almost giddy to know they’re still there (my mother lost hers)
    but I am embarrassed nonetheless that even they aren’t
    pretty.
  11. compulsion
    an urge to do something that might be better left undone
    Early cancer didn’t stop the compulsion
    to sing but
    there’s gravel now.
  12. undercurrent
    a feeling or tendency that is not explicitly expressed
    An undercurrent
    that also reveals me. Time and disaster.
  13. stifle
    smother or suppress
    When you stopped speaking to me
    what you really wanted was for me to stop speaking to you. To
    stifle the sound of my voice.
  14. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
    What does it mean
    to silence another? It means I ruminate on the hit
    of rain against the tin roof of childhood, how I could listen
    all day until the water rusted its way in.
Created on Mon Dec 21 09:58:25 EST 2020 (updated Mon Dec 21 16:38:43 EST 2020)

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