stelliform
e_o_i A couple of days ago, I wrote this on "blooming" and the blather box underlined it as error, but Merriam-Webster agrees with me: it's a word that means star-shaped. It's just not super common.

A cool thing I discovered just now: it's also a small press operating out of Hamilton, Ontario. They focus on sci-fi and literary fiction about climate and environmental topics: www.stelliform.press
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epitome of incomprehensibility ....But with such an elegant word as this, I should be "epitome of incomprehensibility" first. Alack, the pit of prehensibility not adhering to her own rules. 260424
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ovenbird His brain was a sky,
bright with stelliform cells,
branching dendrites
flaring
from dense cores,
so many
constellations
of thought and
memory, traversing
the vacuum
towards distant atmospheres.

Now the stars go out,
one by one. Their fires
smothered by plaques
and tangles, black holes
swallowing sight,
swallowing self,
swallowing hope.

These are not
the sort of stars
you wish upon:
the black dwarf, cold,
without any light to call
its own.
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