Poetic PereGRINation
Words in landscape.
Not signs, just words.
Like flowers or leaves.
Strung,
stuck on sticks,
strewn across the turf,
sprouting from the ground.
English words
Spanish words,
French words,
German words,
Indian words
words from imaginary Borgesian languages,
words that might have delighted Joyce or Lear.
A cornucopia of word-smithery.
Word-birds that alight on your shoulder.
Slow down for a word
set under an Osage Orange tree*
Let images gather.
Wander freely
from word to word
with no map.
A poem may happen.
Plant a word.
Plough the Word Farm.
Walk the Woodbury Wordscape.
___________
* Aka
Horse apple,
Hedge apple,
Hedge Ball,
Bois D'Arc
Bodark,
Bodock
Osage Apple,
Mock Orange
Yellow Wood,
Palo de Arco, Ayac [Indian],
Maclura pomifera [Latin])
