Word Parts

 Sometimes space both blue and green is found in the simplest things.

Word Parts

I’m a Reading Teacher now, so when

I read a poem and I see words like

endless

unseen

transform

impossible

within

I’m thinking words parts. I’m thinking

of prefixes and suffixes and

base words. It delights me in

a weird way, this focus on words

and how they come together.

It’s a bounty for me. It is breaking

the world in little pieces and putting

it back together again. It’s awareness

of what is. It’s a puzzle sometimes,

and a way to get better at noticing

the small things that make up the

large things.

I never thought I’d be poetic about

word parts, but this is the road I’m on,

the road between things.

(9/1/17 inspired by Nick Flynn’s “Blind Huber (vii)”)