the way of words

my way
   is the way of words
   but i am
no writer, no poet, no scholar.

i feed on words
   like a zebra
   feeds on grass.

i am the yellow soul
   inside the daffodil
   transforming sunlight
      into wordy color,
   saving my speech for
   golden afternoons & dawn.

when darkness comes,
   i wait for the muse
   in the song of the
nightingale.

so here i am,
   an articulate image in
   a dream of flowers, &
all i want to do is
glow.