Plata Rasa

Cover image for the Plata Rasa word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Plata Rasa

n.
the lulling sound of a running dishwasher, whose steady maternal shushing somehow puts you completely at peace with not having circumnavigated anything solo.

Latin plata, plate + rasa, blank or scraped clean. Pronounced “pla-tuh rah-suh.”

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Candling

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

Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape