It's partly the chiasmic reveral: miss/shrinking, weeping/want. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference
But, on the other hand, as a more chiasmic ontology, it works holistically. From Wordnik.com. [Body is Vibration] Reference
Brain tumors can compress surrounding axons and thus produce prolonged interwave periods; gliomas, acoustic neuromas, and chiasmic lesions can be identified by such localized or lateralized evoked potential abnormalities. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
In its course, Swann's essay teaches us to recognize the aesthetic as the medium through which we can read the fluid, chiasmic relationship between what is living and what is dead in the life-work and death-work of Percy Bysshe Shelley. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence] Reference
We could say that the chiasmus can be filled in with intuitive or symbolic content — literal or figurative seeing — while the chiasmic form channels us toward understanding ( "seeing" in a metaphoric sense), that "dark, bright, bright, dark," is like "most, I, eyes, best.". From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Is Reading] Reference
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