“…excavated our mouths.)”
–Rene Char
What we said differs
from their fragmented
and curated reduction:
they heard only themselves
in what we said, never
the complexity of the song,
the harmony of the whole.
There is no discussion
without trust; we cannot
extract from the common
tongue of our understandings
a meaning which translates
the transcendent life
in the cauterized eyes,
the erasures, and shattered
lives. What words remain
embed in jaws clinched
tight with genetic anger;
our lacerated tongues
draped across broken teeth.
(May 2, 2015)
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