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[Leah S.]

There is also a third word "pendent" which was actually designed for horticultural uses but none of the 3 is superior in any way other than the odd grammatical confusion caused by one and the "tektak" esque inversion created by the other 2.
For clarification, let's take our "sentence":
No ruby fruits, no piercing darts of piping chillies, no eggplants
pendulate, purple-breasted.
In it's current form, we have a list of nouns and a verb (classic english construction although missing the required conjunction) followed by a dangling adjective.  Our assumption is that fruits, chillies and eggplants all pendulate purple-breasted.  It could technically be correct but seems ludicrous to this reader.  The missing conjunction as well as the superfluous comma before purple-breasted are suspect.

Well, since "pendulate" ain't in the dictionary, I think we can assume the inversion: No fruits. No chillies. No eggplants pendulating purple-breasted.  

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pendulate

There is an inversion either way, I think I may have confused the casual reader with my sentence construction.

I tried, but your link won't show me the definition of pendulate without signing up for a free trial. My ten lb. hard copy of Webster's New Universal Unabridged doesn't have it. I think we should give the author credit for the new word, anyway.