No one cares:
not the professor
of rhetoric,
bored by all
but his own experience;
not the editor
who, in at least
two languages,
has heard it all;
not even
your good friend
who does her best
to listen;
only the words –
the words that rise
from their accustomed tasks
to lead you
deliberately
through ferns
and phonemes
into the woods,
where you must dig
for roots,
fish from the deepest part
of the stream.
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