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If, as
Heidegger Says,
Language
is the house of being, where
dime
store plastic flowers? What do we do
with
the single-syllable words that are too small
to move
into? Remember last week when
the
mouse fell asleep in the backyard clover,
and the
poet-composer warped the same thought
into
seven kinds of flight? We climbed the ladder
of an
ancient syntax and discovered
that
the cathedral we were birthing had no
windows.
Who will open the cages we’ve built
around
ourselves? How will we capture
the
slippery accents of home on someone
else’s
tongue? If language is the house of being,
then
being is the house of a little talking dove,
and the
little talking dove is the house of a secret,
and the
secret is the house of silence, and silence
is the house
of dime store plastic flowers
and the
two-story mouths that carry them.
—Melissa
Studdard
