She rings honey around her ears
to attract fragments of dialogue
Peels paper skins off whispers
to suck out sweet ideas
Hides a paring knife beneath her tongue
to slice adjectives from nouns
Rolls the crushed fragrance of sentences
to smoke and inhale the essence

She is a scam word grifter

The hint of her finger’s touch
can lift a poem out of the ether
swindle away its metaphors
into  hidden pockets of her memory

She is a sharp in search of flats

Master of the short con sleight of mind

Put her name first on the signup sheet

Maker her sweat for every word put on paper

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