Dictionary Poem

I love teaching people how to use a dictionary, watch them or , use them in their own new sentences. I teach men and women in jail how to annotate a text, underline the words that they don’t know yet, look them up in dictionaries I bring in for them to keep. , , , : words they learn while we go through stories, essays, poems. Kings used to make water magic by pouring it over carved tablets, then take the water in their mouths to make carved words come true. These students run their fingers over the lines, move their lips to make the words belong to them: , , , . and .