Mightless words! Vehicles of nothing!
Like barking to a dying possum, be this a command, what would you do?
All about: words
Mightless words ! Vehicles of nothing
flapping their wings (in pain), clacking their beaks,
barking to a dying possum,
You have to thicken your words to hold them in place
My words that are idiot contracts written to the music of escape.
I want my words to live in a redeeming, magnificent song
to worship the hole in freedom
Reading: Words by Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia (b. 1950) is an American poet and writer. I found her theoretical poem about Words for a friend with whom I have an ongoing conversation about language and the other of language. Words The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less ...
Reading: No One, Everyone by Bronisław Maj
Polish poet Bronisław Maj (b. 1953) is celebrated as one of the finest poets of his generation and recepient of some reputable literary prizes (almost no author biography on the Internet fails to mention the Prizes). I found a short verse in a translation by Katarzyna Kietlinska and David Malcolm: No one, everyone No one ...