Letter Poems

I am doing a project writing (loosely defined) love letters to words.  Some examples:

panorama

once, I thought you

were a palindrome.

that was many 

years ago.  in the interim,

you are widening.

your third vowel flickers

between England

and Midwestern America.

you belong, my once-

palindrome, in a field

thick with corn.

absence

but I am here.

unless existing is a process

of disappearing.

in which case, I am

an absence waiting

to happen.  I am

waiting to happen

to you.

flirt

you are not my mother, you are a snort!