Speaking in Half Tongues
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speaking in half tongues
out of practice
I tread the trail of tattered syllables
blind, unencumbered
I am a child again
repeating in that bewitching
stuttering fashion
stringing together a nestling of hygienically
rounded vowels
like ‘ogliometastic growth’
and ‘neoplasm’
strutting right out in the open
one troublesome word
buried deep in the nomenclature
issues an ultimatum
I wander amongst my half tongue mutterings
seeking the two headed beast
the conjuror of greening forest vapours
of a newborn babies tucked snuggly
in the yeasty hearth of the cradling papoose
‘squamous’ cells and …
