“There’s been a hoot-owl howling by my window now
for six nights in a row.”
– “Wildfire” by Michael Martin Murphy
After awhile don’t all words take on the sound of their letters,
not just swoop and buzz, but words with a kind of width, like fat
or the density in the letters of muscles?
Do meanings soak into the sponginess
by ways of association.
maybe not as much as slick or slippery or slime
or hiccup or zoom or beep or moo
or the pressures of tick-tock?