Yes, I know these were published in 2009. What can I say? I'm slow about updating the blog sometimes.
Hailey Leithauser's poem
and
Mel Nichols's poem
Bonus points if you find the palindrome in the first one! It's a great image, too, especially for these summer days.
'O' is just delicious for a word-lover. (Shouldn't everybody be a word-lover? I don't think I understand / trust anyone who's not.)
ReplyDeleteGiggling at Google :) .
... And I wonder if she started the poem with that palindrome? What a great pair of words!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if she did, but can you imagine her total sense of serendipity when she realized what a picture that palindrome made--or that her picture was also a palindrome? I mean, I assumed that the palindrome came first, but then, who knows?
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't "delicious," when it's used to discuss matters other than food, also a great word for word-lovers? :)