TE19 Iberian Adventure

Second Tongue

(SIC) No entry beyond this point.

The mouth’s anteroom

the soft palate’s vault

oral accommodation

isthmus of the jaws

under the tonsils

the leavings of dead tongues

maps tattooed on the mucus

errata gnawing away

the artifice of syntax

across the sublingual fold.

Oral insides devouring sounds.

The bodily torment. The voice’s fall.

When you heard glory

I meant to say allegory

when you got I was hurried

I was actually harried

when you heard believing

I was on about bleeding

and when you heard God I was saying

gone!

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