"Homewords": Introduction, 4

       Words themselves are at home on this planet.  Where else do they acquire the images that are their roots?  What better word than "roots" to suggest how words belong here, grow here, thrive here, that their home and sustenance is planet earth?
 
       Words express a longing for what is absent and yearned for--the Silent Eloquence they emerge from; but words may also be as much as we get of home.  So check the attic and the cellar, under the eaves, and deep in the closets--you could find what you are looking for, even in exile.