Showing posts with label place-names. Show all posts
Bent, Oregon
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Bent, Oregon
Came to bent
at twenty-seven.
Hostile
eyes met my
stride
he/she, ladyboy
geezerbird,
silent questions
is it the one?
Polyphant
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Half sonnet: Polyphant
Many elephants
University of Elephants
Various Freudian phantasies
Fantasy University
Polyps from Hants.
Frog pool.
So it goes in Polyphant
Interesting place names are pretty rife in Cornwall. Polyphant, near Hicksmill, is a pretty good one. My boyfriend has been considering it as a band name and the possibilities foe related word-play are limitless... with members considering names like polygon, polyfilla etc! Just after originally posting this one I met a man from Polyphant! He said it is the Cornish for Frogpool Pol = Pool and Lyphant= Frog.
So it goes in Polyphant
Interesting place names are pretty rife in Cornwall. Polyphant, near Hicksmill, is a pretty good one. My boyfriend has been considering it as a band name and the possibilities foe related word-play are limitless... with members considering names like polygon, polyfilla etc! Just after originally posting this one I met a man from Polyphant! He said it is the Cornish for Frogpool Pol = Pool and Lyphant= Frog.