About a neologism that weaves pain, place, and solace — whorls of time, sand, muscle, water —
a girl aches for Flamenco white sands.
from grain to polished planet,
when life stuff collapses into pearls;
bóvedas bivalvas horneando arena*… anemones died off
ten years before her birth. *bivalve vaults baking sand. Further reading There's a word for the feeling of loss due to climate change
In 2014, the writer and critic Zadie Smith published an essay in the New York Review of Books that drew a word-map…qz.com
