Diction
is not just
a chapter in a freshman "comp." book,
is life, power,gender, community,
beyond/within the poet's provenance
words are alive, oxygenated dance
within the bloody brain
make all more plain
like/as (take your choice grammarian
on the plain Sumerian)
the thoughtless immortality
of the child cocooned within each adult
words whiz
do their own "biz"
come and go and trample meaning
when one is attempting gleaning
how elusive words can be--
even for one such as (sic) me.
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