Thursday, May 21, 2015

onomatopoeia


       onomatopoeia

some words -- call out:
round, loud
or screeching traction
or precise, pertinent
or subtle, evanescent
or in the end
awe

calls coming to shake and point
in the direction
like swallowing a throw

sounds only hiss
shushing
isn't silence



--- [updated July 9, 2019 with G.'s help]
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