Linguistics
Into the language we come
into the world
to depart by the same path we
arrived
the most hidden gulches hold petroglyphs
caves unvisited thirty thousand years contain ideograms
the tundra's littered with
calendar bones
a rustle, a swift breath of dialect
larynx, nostril & lip
certain archaic forms change hardly at all
though tools and food get reshaped
The word Ma
the number three
and for some hidden reason obscure to
linguistics
the term for
ashes
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Andrew Schelling
Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers
Empty Bowl 2024
