more useful idiots

by Dennis Scharnberg

Single-adjective expressions, somewhat in the manner of Vergil’s Georgics:

—the corrosive sunlight

—the frantic cicada

—a glowing blossom

—the lofty leaves

—a shining window

—the impenetrable cement

—the stark horizon

—the noble edifice

—a smiling beast

—the irregular quadrilateral

Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty,  A Book of Lists.