Today
I could not bring to mind
the correct way to spell
trout. So I went fishing
in pools of possible vowels knowing
it would probably look right
when I saw it.
I wrote
troat and it looked right
but didn't sound right so I
wrote traot and that clearly
would not ride the bus
and troate was just Elizabethan hopelessness
Which is why I buttress my tower
with dictionaries, crenellations of reference
The fish hid there amidst those pages
but then I realized the voicing was
a dead give away: what rhymes with trout?
is out
vs. in