how words make one quiver
by tanner brockwell
how words make one quiver
simple anticipation but more
culmination of events
inadvertent situational
all the same tiny steps
to to to a great big mystery
i can hardly wait
if i kept counting
should i count backwards or forwards
to pass the time
ten nine eight two
somewhere in counting
i lost my way
back to forms
ay ay ay bee ay ay bee
but that was never really me
it comes from the unaware
simple evolution cortex expanding
to word objects not real
but describing the real
and then beyond when words became
the description of events
or words described the arrangement of words
my knowledge is in no way encyclopedic
but i have seen those pages
the line art drawings of dodo birds
died young
dead when the world was just gaining feet
sea legs and an age of sails
then poof they were gone
dead
we realize their departure was in memory
we recorded it but a record is not the event
time should revolve
to see the coasts and landing
walk among birds
they had no fear
their future was not certain
that chance
to unset time
to make amends
who would say no
and yet while they died
dead to the memory of any age
any one can say
this is a dodo
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