HAIRY SONNET
What’s in a Word
If I can’t pronounce it
Published in
Feb 9, 2024
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
– Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking Glass”
The last ritual,
the barber shows me
my trim in his hand mirror.
My hair is completely white.
I’m certain it still had…
