Kilter

Catching up on Anthony Lawrence's Signal Flare … the long opening poem, an elegy so clearly reminiscent of Slessor's Five Bells,  has these lines which nicely draw out the word 'kilter' from it usual environment, highlighting its strangeness

your absence the start

of a long playing record

of scenes and conversations

that are not out of place

or kilter with you death … 

In fact, the only other use of the word in a poem that comes to mind is by Peter Porter, and there it is ensconced as always with its known associates …. 

And in The Age of Epigram

When an out-of-kilter cummerbund

Or a wrong caesura in hexameters

Was most of what was worrying in art

Some brutal primitive was marketing

A colossal apparatus raising myth

To high symphonic shouting.