Words

Using just the right word

Helps to make the poem, the essay, the prose

Balanced, rhythmic, perfected

As if saying it “just so” makes all the difference

In the entire world to the writer

Supposing the reader doesn’t care so much

But the writer seeks to establish mood, tone

Conveying just the right energy and power,

Perhaps lightening it to faerie dust

Or slamming it like playing all the keys of a piano

Yes, each word is carefully chosen

Carefully placed on the page

Surrounded by other words waiting to light the cauldron

Creating pictures in the mind

And carrying the reader, held prisoner, to the end.