I am the sluice of dead scrolls and songs,
                                                      I am the tongue of what exists,
Whose secrets are whispered and not heard.
Listen to me, listen to what’s the nothing I have to say.

—Charles Wright, from “23” in Littlefoot: A Poem (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007)

Sluice is the weirdest word I have ever seen.

Sluice. Sluice. Sluice.

Sluice

Derek’s back is to him and he’s got his hands in his hair and after Stiles’ brain reboots from where ever it had crumbled to, he realizes there’s a shampoo bottle on the ground. And yeah, he’s made a few fabulous jokes about how, in fact, Derek manages to stay clean when his house doesn’t even have running water, but he hadn’t actually thought -

‘What do you do when it doesn’t rain?’ he blurts out, because, lets be honest, he’s not exactly known for tact or subtlety.

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kaleidoscopeyes replied to your post: Sluice is the weirdest word I have ever seen.

You’ve never seen that word? I guess at Merrie-Woode you are exposed to it from a young age. lol

I have seen it before! Just not that often. And it’s still incredibly odd.

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