if my tongue catches in my mouth like a latch
if swallows twist down the horizon like
if i watch walls waiting for you
the scene on my shield will survive me. i am growing a good
army in the center of
my chest. i am trying to shine
my heart open.
is this where we came from? all of us? this war story love
story
second story window staring?
i need to know some things.
1. do our
memories make love behind us and make new ones
2. the color
of the spaces between bodies (mine, yours)
3. the nuance
of weather (effects on reading, looking, interior sound)
4. feral animals
(tracking)
5. how to squelch
worry
my mother had an imaginary friend named Worry who lived in
one of my grandmother’s pink plastic curlers. this is my lineage. this is the
plant i flower from. if you need more context, look in your own grandmother’s
mirror. notice how she is curled along the odd color mapping the ring of your
eye, flecking outward.
the definition doesn’t count. we reimagine language in order
to communicate.
we unhook our tongues from their closures and look inside.
squelch |skwel ch |
verb [ intrans. ]
make a soft sucking sound such as that made by walking
heavily through mud : bedraggled, we squelched across the wet grass to seek
shelter.
• [ trans.] informal - forcefully silence or suppress :
property developers tried to squelch public protest.
noun
1 a soft sucking sound made when pressure is applied
to liquid or mud : the squelch of their feet.
2 (also squelch circuit) Electronics
- a circuit that suppresses the output of a radio receiver if the signal
strength falls below a certain level.
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (originally denoting a heavy crush,
a fall on to something soft): imitative.
we don’t, but we want to.
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