4 May 2004. Just a few vagrant thoughts about poetry today. Subject: connotatively rich words. I'm particularly sensitive to the need for them since most of my mathemaku have so few words. Anyway, in an idle moment today I was thinking about the word, "attic"--how it could stand by itself as a pwoermd. That got me thinking that it'd be nice to have a dictionary of similarly emotively powerful words. I've started a few lists of such words, myself, but not gotten far with any of them. I soon realized that there must be a lot of such words. The most obvious would be the names of the seasons. "Night" and "day." Then, I thought of "bed." It didn't work, for me, though it certainly has a lot of meanings and connotations. If a word has too many denotations, and/or contradictory or not cohesive connotations, it won't work. "Bed" can be something one sleeps in, has sex in, or is sick in. There's also the flower bed. For all that, maybe I'll use it in a mathemaku. . . .