Billy Goat Equals Caper Poem by Douglas Scotney

I engrossed in my Harbour Of Meanings,
my dictionary, my HOM,
and articulated 'Billy Goat Equals Caper'.

For a bit of pure Latin in the kitchen:
a colium is a strainer.

For a bit in the body:
the collum's the neck.

For a bit of pure Greek:
the soldier wiped the blood off his sword
and returned it to its koleos.

Skolios is 'crooked'.

Crookneck is a Glasshouse Mountain
(Coonowrin in Language) .

A crooked scabbard
is of no use to a sword,
but may feature in a cartoon,
(from Latin carta, 'paper') .

Here endeth
'Billy Goat Equals Caper'.