Collection 5: "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005" by Patricia Smith

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  1. reserve
    armed forces that can be called in an emergency
    “Data from an Air Force reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft...along with observations from the Bahamas and nearby ships...indicate the broad low pressure area over the southeastern Bahamas has become organized enough to be classified as tropical depression twelve.”
  2. reconnaissance
    the act of scouting, especially to gain information
    “Data from an Air Force reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft...along with observations from the Bahamas and nearby ships...indicate the broad low pressure area over the southeastern Bahamas has become organized enough to be classified as tropical depression twelve.”
  3. depression
    an air mass of lower pressure
    “Data from an Air Force reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft...along with observations from the Bahamas and nearby ships...indicate the broad low pressure area over the southeastern Bahamas has become organized enough to be classified as tropical depression twelve.”
  4. muted
    being or made softer or less loud or clear
    A muted thread of gray light, hovering ocean,
    becomes throat, pulls in wriggle, anemone, kelp,
    widens with the want of it.
  5. anemone
    a marine polyp that resembles a flower
    A muted thread of gray light, hovering ocean,
    becomes throat, pulls in wriggle, anemone, kelp,
    widens with the want of it.
  6. belittle
    cause to seem lesser or inferior
    How dare
    the water belittle my thirst, treat me as just
    another
    small
    disturbance,

    try to feed me
    from the bottom of its hand?
  7. unbridled
    not restrained or controlled
    I will require praise,
    unbridled winds to define my body,
    a crime behind my teeth
    because

    every woman begins as weather,
    sips slow thunder, knows her hips.
  8. harbor
    maintain, as a theory, thought, or feeling
    Every woman
    harbors a chaos, can
    wait for it, straddling a fever.
  9. console
    give moral or emotional strength to
    For now,
    I console myself with small furies,
    those dips in my dawning system.
  10. brine
    water containing salts
    The brine shivers.
Created on Wed Jun 17 08:47:09 EDT 2020 (updated Tue Jun 30 16:28:02 EDT 2020)

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