Although these words come from various sources, they are all striking examples of how sometimes beautiful or strange things are described by poetic or strange language. Since I’m freely borrowing these words and sentences, I figured the least I could is list their source
Incipitate; The incipit of a text is the first few words of the text / ‘a beginning’
A Portait of the Artist as a Slab of Flesh; from City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
The Faint smell of Decay; from Shriek: an Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
Zad Plant is my Hero; from The Big Aha by Rudy Rucker
A Microscopic Unit of Morbidity; Micromort / Coined by professor R. Howard of Stanford University
Mollusque from mollusca; a large phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda
Incipitate_Au / Noble Metals triptych; description pending
Heliotroop; description pending
Burgess Shale; a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in British Columbia, Canada. This group of fossils takes its name from the Burgess Shale rock formation, named by Walcott after nearby Mount Burgess in the Canadian Rockies
the Modeling; description pending
A Flowering in Miniature from Shriek: an Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
Awkward Fish; description pending
A Portait of the Artist as a Slab of Flesh; from City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
The Faint smell of Decay; from Shriek: an Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
Zad Plant is my Hero; from The Big Aha by Rudy Rucker
A Microscopic Unit of Morbidity; Micromort / Coined by professor R. Howard of Stanford University
Mollusque from mollusca; a large phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda
Incipitate_Au / Noble Metals triptych; description pending
Heliotroop; description pending
Burgess Shale; a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in British Columbia, Canada. This group of fossils takes its name from the Burgess Shale rock formation, named by Walcott after nearby Mount Burgess in the Canadian Rockies
the Modeling; description pending
A Flowering in Miniature from Shriek: an Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
Awkward Fish; description pending