DDCPoetry

I looked up "colon usage" and found this article "A Guide to Using Colons" .  For me, I normally associate the usage of colons to set up a connection between lists and the concept before, for example, "Things I like: bread, eggs, and sleep."  But for the title of this poem, "Mouth: To Say," has more of a different feel to it -- separating what the mouth does versus words to say. "To say a word, we put it in our mouths. / It may roll between the teeth / or hum on the plate [...]" note how the adjusted lines decrease the speed of reading the poem for me as though the reader has to tread on each line slowly like a staircase.  With this in mind, the clinical way on how to say a word is offset with the line adjustments. " Love , after all, starts / on tongue against teeth and ends on lips."  For me, I'm focusing on the italicized word of "love" but my own personal background and definition of "Love" and focu...