#1680 - every word

 

1680

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7.viii.24

every word

draft only

 

looks two ways

wants company

 

every word

rhymes with itself

 

is from and destined to

 

tricks up a gist

and drift

 

at a stretch

or often anger

 

sniffs after the rear of another

sister brother word

 

takes off

heartfelt in the far

 

as unexpected

 

a word is somewhere else

 

there for us

a kiss to lip

and tongue tip

hieroglyphic

 

can you describe

how it is, diving in?

 

a word has time to go unsaid

 

pin pulled and chuck

or come around the long way

 

a word unfed is primed to bite

 

in a forest of such

this one

 

and on its own two legs four

sits up and begs

or it might strike

 

a word is a bird as well

 

comes in dripping

from its voyage, all ratty

 

stars arrange themselves to night

 

some words fly like flags

others skulk

 

a piano ends up in a tree

 

that’s the word

 

heals the air by strife

 

there’s this silence all around

more of a moat than a keep

 

every word makes its own way

 

makes this world

the only one you’ll see