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Words
By Carolyn Chilton Casas
Words give the tongue wings. Consider spangled, calabash, chiseled— their pipelines vibrating through your body. Say enigma, Osage, interwoven, cobalt, concentric, lodestone— they take you to an imaginative place far from the small space you inhabit. Think nouns—lullaby, spark kernel, Pismo; adjectives— secret, crisp, lucid, ethereal, verbs—preen and praise. Words can save you; they are rafts on a rolling sea. Putting them together is a marvel. Taste the word pozole— how it makes your mouth water, bursts of tones like shooting stars.
Words can save you; they are rafts on a rolling sea.
Halcyon Days - 2021 Issue 23 | 30
