Back Then when my vocabulary was about six words longeven ahead of Outside, Kitty, NaNa, No, NoWayBluCanny was my favorite worddelivering anticipationof unwrappingcrackly cellophanehard lozengegoing liquid on my tonguementholated tingle zingslike snowflakes landingvanishing in a sparkgoing viraltongue to throatexpandingdancingin breathin heartzapping through veinscurlingtoes and hair NowYou are my blue candy. ~Nara Malone dVerse Meeting the Bar challenge tonight is to go home to the roots of our voice and language to write something that is “…uniquely you — using the words you might say to a neighbor or friend, keeping it familiar and seeking to make it distinctly you, about you, in your vernacular.” This is also my contribution to…