Hearing from Before After
This is the effect of reciting the lover's name as heard by the lover.
This is not prideKeyword: "like". Symbol plugged into the relay of simile. And short-circuiting. "This is not that word / but the other / that must be spoken / over and over / while the world lasts."
because I know
it is not
my name that you whisper
but a sign
between us,
like the word
that was spoken
at the beginning
of the world
and will be spoken again
only when the world ends.
Alden Nowlan "The Word" in Selected Poems (Toronto: Anansi, 2013).
And so for day 1666
06.07.2011
