all the words in the book

Of the roughly 2000 words that make up my forthcoming poetry book, the following tag cloud is a visualization of the 500 most commonly occurring, weighted by size. Most frequently used were, in order: mother, eyes, name, glass, air, black, teeth, hands. Huh.

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