wordpoem #17
there’s this net wordgame babble
I tune in for company with morning
coffee it starts my cogs rolling I aim
to locate half the words the grids
are sometimes huge though a recent
one was only forty-four I favor about
a hundred thirty sometimes there
there are five E’s or six U’s I find
every word conjures up an image a
crazy random patchwork I like best
to listen to players on the chat log
they know each other range from france
to scotland australia canada holland
israel ireland keep track of births ills
jobs deaths I am a lurker just listen
to lexi-lovers all over the globe they
exchange clues for the hard words
today one was aruspex someone said
what a strange word someone replied
it’s divining by animal entrails –
what’s so strange about that?
©2016 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2016.
