JOYCE UGLOW AUTHOR

At 5:45 a.m on Labor Day 2026, the sunrise shined above the fog and through the spare backyard leaves. A “Wordspinner” is a poetry form invented by Irene Latham and is used to give poetic license to a word’s definition. The word kenning comes from the Old Norse verb kenna, which means “to know” or “to perceive”. The Kenning poetry form puts metaphorical compounds to work.