An ExceptIOn Under PlaY.

Author’s personal photograph of a headstone on the grave of an ancestor on the distaff side of her family.

Only Cheerios
open ohms
and create
the ro ro ro.

How vowels labor!

Oa Oe Oi Oo Ou
…and sometimes Y.
Oh why?

First there was word —
or was it work?

Oh, own, owe, one.