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Posting from iPhone (a very welcome gift that has a steep learning curve), so will try not to include weird typos from touch screen.

The crazy words and lines typed by a new iphone user could be a poem in themselves but i have been thinking about yesterday’s poem about choosing the wrong train. I used the phrase “tremorous grind” to describe the quivering plod of the wrong train. I knew ( from spell check) that tremorous was probably not a word but it seemed right to me — a combination of “timorous” and “tremor”. On the other hand, I tend to question invented words–words invented by me at least–since (1) my brain is faulty and (2) the ENglish language as currently constituted is pretty comprehensive. Which makes me think today that the word I truly wanted was “tremulous”–“tremulous grind”.

On the other hand, the subway trains in NYC really do shake and quake.

Tremorous? Tremulous? Is it all just a grind?

Any of you English language or poetry mavens have any ideas?

(Finally–an apology. I’m not sure I’ve figured out the interface of iPhone and wordpress enough to edit this! It’s just amazing to me to be able to post without internet connection.)

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