Voicing (Peter O’Neill)
We have all done this at some point held each particular body part of the beloved up to the light as if seeing the thing for the first time voicing the word then a sign... la bouche... les lèvres... etcetera voicing the object onomatopoeiac the sound of the object resonating in the word – la b o u c h e – the mouth lips moving to the sound of the thing so that lips and words conjoin as both your lips would do labial folds moving their microcosmic movements unfolding with all the momentum of infinite stillness
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