Vignette: Pride and Prejudice

Vignettes are not supposed to be
discursive. They shouldn't veer off
into self-indulgent doldrums or irrelevant paeans—
they should be twisted tight as a torniquet,
unnecessary flesh excised.

He's debonair and saturnine, wears
the sobriquet "Olivier" easily. She's a bomb
hidden under an Austen-patterned parasol.
Their colloquy is punctuated
by vulpine yowls.

twist; tourniquet; debonair; paean; discursive; vignette; veer; excise; parasol; doldrums; sobriquet; vulpine; yowl; colloquy; saturnine; bomb

--words courtesy of Read Write Poem
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