Wobble

wobble

is the quintessential

example

of onomatopoeia


the opposite

would be a

thing or experience

whose essence

no combination of our

language’s phonemes

could mimic

in between

those two extremes

is where poets

ply their trade

like cobblers repairing

one shoe for putting

your best foot forward

and the other for putting

your foot in your mouth

poetry is about

outfitting people

to be comfortable doing

both at once

how do you like

the sound

of that?

Poems 3Jim Burlingame