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Word Fall
Try and fill up your tumbler with gray words
Words fall around me
They blow in on clouds like wild ponies
They howl like wolves
Words slip past my fingers
Words squeak under my bare feet
Echo in the fairgrounds
Turn to meet me in the darkness.
Words
I scan my eyes for the people on top of the roller-coaster
All I see are words tumbling down
Words weigh down my tree-root heart
They are armor that makes me indefensible
Many tiny moons walk past me—
Words that sever all my relationships
Words are the shadows beside the sun
Words are the ring around the moon
Words are streaks from watercolor streetlights
Words.
A tribute to both the beautiful and destructive power of words. Also, a nod to the Wolf Girl Three-- "Words howl like wolves."