On the Alphabet
cross the world
and bring our song
to it
by fish and hook
cattle and grasses
the plain and the pool
to catch a day's passage
to document a volume of night
to signify mouth and cup
fork and knife
the maw of a forest dweller
the blink of a planet up there
map to path, shape of horse
tail and rod
finger and mountain
in accompaniment
a lascivious yawn
and clicking of tooth
making connection
to me and that
that there
in case my body
couldn't describe
what it heard or saw
what it touched or tasted
to share and shared experience
and paleolithic disruption of peace
the great cat attacks
and one must call danger
or the strong man by name
or talk of itself
and create a counter in mathematic
delineating but never seperating
in case of abstraction break glass
and lose your head
words written in the corpuscle
and in the four chambers of a heart
transfering meaning at the interface of exchange and some will note
a loss of intention and originary meaning
as others will offer interpretation and a spiral staircase of libraries
little grapheme, etch, mark in the wild, the pre-art of society and the many
you were formalised in Phoenicia
but you came from a pulse
from some belt
some asteroid as germ or hand
and you speak your voyage immersed in air and species: life
and much like the universe
there is no prior
but I would like to add to your English twenty-six
with accompanying gloop
and make algebra into
a verbalised lexicon of sense
til vector makes epic
til theorem makes phraseology,
til your entire tone makes
a land of singular story.
