some sentences, pause
words, like gaps in a smile
silences pop
the tiniest spaces are the tinnitus
in meaning's ear nest
language is sometimes a cowled coward
the inner battle of a lonely cod
silver and silver
does our hero suture
action to intent
seemlessly?
what tongue licks salt from the rocks,
but replaces apples to the crisping trees
too bad your brain
is grey
and decay
a glyptic hermit who'll never touch
daynight
only receive whispered report
from his friends, the crickets
we, the pond
enrapt in hushed bondage
shuffling gapward
do words taste?
do sentences really?
1 comment:
Yes, words do taste, but only as experienced by the reader.
Try Capote! (I love his "Christmas Story" or something like that, the title definitely has Christmas in it.)
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