Protean Flight

Now let us all flee at once!
Imagine if words could be
Songbirds, squid, or sandhoppers

Exploding every which way
When startled, feeling threatened.
When a reader gets too close,

Words leap in all directions!
The reader is too confused
To grab what the reader wants,

And in the storm of signals
Maybe everyone escapes.
You crunch calmly, now. One day.