Southern Legitimacy Statement: Hope all is well. I’m writing to you from south North America, bottom cousin to our neighbors (Canada) to the north. I don’t know if that legitimizes my submission, but I’m going out on a limb just to see.
Something Like Language
rain
always makes
me think
of language
as less
or more
of what
it can
restore
not what it describes
language
doesn’t cure disease
language
doesn’t put out fires
nature shrugs
at what language
can do
yet we lean on it
we jibber
we blibber
we gossip
we signify
we label
we put our tongues to the test
& at best
it saves lives
at worst
it entertains
if memory is a dream
language is its vehicle
a sound as
foreign as it is
perplexing
like this pitter
of falling
rain
