Plethora

Use the word plethora–borrowed from Late Latin plēthōra, plētūra “fullness, overabundance of a humor,” borrowed from Greek plēthṓra “fullness, crowdedness (of a marketplace at peak hour), excess of a humor or blood”–either as a creative meditation for your poem, or your poem’s title, or somewhere in your poem (could be the idea, not the literal word, of abundance or profusion). Extra points for a reference to spring.

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Mo Schoenfeld is a (mostly) short form poet in the UK whose work appears in The Storms, Irisi Magazine, Fevers of the Mind, Wombwell Rainbow, Haiku Crush’s Best Haiku 2021-2025 (Judges Grand Mention, 2022), Pure Haiku, Tiny Wren Lit, and Sidhé Press, serving as guest editor for Our Own Coordinates: Poems About Dementia and To Light the Trails: Poems by Women in a Violent World. She’s also had work on the podcasts Eat The Storms and A Thousand Shades of Green.

Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, NC and the editor of Moist Poetry Journal. They are the author of Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021), and have poetry and essays published in Poetry Daily, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and edits River River Books.