Scott Wiggerman

Invulnerability

The longest word I’d ever learned as a child. It had everything to do with comic books. Sure, as a reader I always had a book from the school library, but comic books were my true vocabulary-expanders: arch-nemesis, vigilante, bedlam, metropolis, and, of course, kryptonite. Words not found in the Wizard of Oz series or the Hardy Boys mysteries.

copying pages
from a dictionary
what teachers
considered
punishment

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About the Author

Scott Wiggerman, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He has published hundreds of Japanese-form poems, two of which have been selected for the annual Red Moon anthologies of best English-language haiku. He co-edited the 2017 Haiku North America anthology, Earthsigns.

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