Hazy Acres

Traveling in a tight word

Not picking it up or putting it down

Letting it sit and hang out 

Several minds are contemplating the meaning of this word

More so 

How it was delivered 

How it sits next to two other words in a large group 

Of other words

Connected to a longer line of other words

The line started miles on down

Wrapping back some years

Before now

And this one word was born there

Lived there

The word found its shelter in a dusty jacket shoved between other words

From other worlds

Your language is alive 

Carving around the edges

Smoothing it for the lines that go around the other lines 

Dangling just ahead 

A chance to say it 

You fed it 

Believed in it 

Expressed it 

Wore it like a jacket

Defined your soul in a body of word friends 

Lifting up this one 

As it lifts up the other

Could it be replaces

Reframed

Deleted forever

And if so 

How does it change the landscape of a person

These words

A word

One

We might use as an anchor 

All could be that thin

Write a sentence describing yourself 

Then swap the main word labeling your experience 

What if water was the word for love

I water you 

What if hate meant drive

I have to hate to the store 

What if eagle was the word for home

I built an eagle in the mountains 

What if existing meant money 

They just need a bit more existing 

Once they earn more existing they can buy that eagle 

In the city 

And focus on their young water 

They don’t like to hate