Look It Up In A Book Poem by Douglas Scotney

A poet uses 'acer'.
Who don't know it who look it up in a book,

see it's not only that
but Latin for 'sharp'.

An acus was a decent-sized needle;
a small one, an acicula.

Was a short perpendus
a perpendicula?

A stubby tail was a penicilla.
An ironic fate awaits a girl named Priscilla.

Acheron is pronounced ak-
but Aceulean's a-shoe-.

A good friend is a fidus Achates (akartease) ,
and in Greece, a short sword is an akinakes.