Pat Corina
Speaking to Silence
In those few seconds waiting for the tone -
and for your rather toneless message to run out -
I wonder where my words will go
once I release them. My muddled physics sees
them funnelled down a microphone,
transmuted by some tiny processor (the sort
with blades) that flings their fragments down
the vortex of a twisted wire, then hurls them out
onto a sticky verbal fly-paper.
How will they reassemble? How
can adjectives seek out their nouns, nouns
home onto verbs? Will they make sense,
these deconstructed particles of thought?
I’ve never been a resurrectionist,
finding it far too much to hope
that bones could summon back the flesh,
thread it with nerves and blood, clothe
it with skin. And yet I know
later you’ll call me back, confirm
that we can meet, that all these blown-
to-bits minutiae of speech
have reached you whole.
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