A contemporary poem about a mouth for the untranslated, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The face opens where language should begin. Petals gather around the unsayable. I bring a word; the image refuses it. Still, every colour makes a new mouth. The question takes root in the silence. Nothing is solved, but something speaks.
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