The Magic of Words
Poem for Dean Young
2 min readAug 25, 2022
The Magic of Words
~for Dean Young
They’ll give you a new lease on life,
they’ll replace your old diseased heart
with one they plucked from the sea,
saying, It’s fine to feel like a whale now,
capable of holding your breath for hours.
But you should always read the smaller words,
the ones that absolve anyone of anything
beyond the buoyancy of…
