I’d never done anything like that – count how many times a word got used. I wonder if other poets do this?
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Could it be that these common words built like a kind of alphabet into so many books of poetry are the first words that civilization used to figure out who we are?
The Word I Couldn’t Leave*
by Michael Klein
I didn’t know how obsessed I was with the world – with the actual word world – until I went through my last book of poems a…
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