Thursday, May 2, 2013

Novalis's Valentine

All my life
Toda mi vida
in the second line
you can still feel
how the newly-minted
consonants are set back
from the full-throated vowels
letting them shine so that
we can speak is one thing
but language stems
from another level of being
outside of time which
slips down to earth
for brief periods
to bloom and die

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