Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Clockwise

adj.
aware that you’ll only ever be a certain age relative to your loved ones, only seeing them from one arbitrary angle across the decades— never knowing your mother in her rebellious youth, never seeing your grandkid as anything other than a kid—because even though your life spans do happen to overlap, they’ll never quite line up.

From clock + wise, pointedly aware of.

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Los Vidados

Cover image for the Los Vidados word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Foreclearing

Cover image for the Foreclearing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Hanker Sore

Cover image for the Hanker Sore word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Proluctance

Cover image for the Proluctance word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Catoptric Tristesse

Cover image for the Catoptric Tristesse word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The Til

Cover image for the The Til word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Anti-Aliasing

Cover image for the Anti-Aliasing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows