Articulations of Water

one of my first memories was the certainty
of the imprecision of words
diluting a vastness of feeling
into sounds given a predetermined meaning

words travel a galaxy from a mouth to an ear
lifetimes of experience in the space between
thickened with emotion-association-worlds

of culture in committed performance

there is a human urgency to be understood
coupled with little value for the gritty labor
of communicating what must be said

a return to the corporeal-
precision gives way
to the messiness of flesh
so I practice learning the language of water