SHONE that day the last sun,
WRIST watch down to final second
CHILIast marked the moment at falls’ lip,
CANOE almost hovering before the tip, then the plunge.
Note: I felt that the normal uses of canoe were taken by the time I got to it.
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Oooh. Chiliast. I had to both look it up and also check on the pronunciation. Makes for a much more interesting poem than just a bloke going headfirst over the falls, in a canoe!
The DQP dynamic at work. “What do I do with chili? Oh, I could do chiliast! Ah, that opens up a strange twist for a man in a canoe.”