harbinger

harbinger,

I could never really understand 

the word harbinger.

at first, 

I thought it had something to do 

with where land and water meet.

something, maybe in the likes of a harbor.

and then, 

I thought of it as a human activity.

something that's done 

with a level of incessancy.

and finally, I thought of it as, 

a person,

a person of activity,

a thing that is done 

in the form of delivery.

this is an example 

of why I have trouble

with words 

that are more than one syllable 

in length.

meaning is a lot like many flavors

in one scoop,

on a spoken cone . . .