Just what does “Wordsmith” mean? What images does that title/phrase bring to your mind? I certainly envision a blacksmith pounding away at raw bars of iron. Stretching and pulling the metal to the length needed. Bending it into what ever shape is desired for both functional and ascetic purposes. Reheating and tempering the metal until it has the strength needed to perform the task at hand.

I see the “Wordsmith”, the poet, the writer as no different. Picking and choosing their words with care and precision. Forming sentences with these words by placing them just so. To change any aspect of the combination of these words would be to totally alter the desired effect.

And so I humbly bow before nothing more than a single sentence. A sentence with a depth of meaning as deep as the oceans depth. A meaning that to some will always remain incomprehensible. Thanks Robert, for a sentence that like a piece of jerky must be chewed on and contemplated before one can swallow it.