Echolalia
after “A”-19 [“An other / song—you want another...”]
In other sounds
E wants a mother
[unclear] I hear
bad. Trachea,
trace—translate
[hiss] chase
meaning’s
severed half-
lives for cantos.
Mine pine
after dorsal
fins. Drafts
drown in
throat. I’m
pssst tense
subjunctive
unfolding
spine, needling
form’s tomb
marrow sonata.
Tingly
E taunts bow
fingers dawn
lightly butchers
an author
botches cadence
mutters in violet.
Noa Micaela Fields, "Echolalia" from Zoeglossia: Poem of the Week, May 17, 2021. Copyright © 2021 by Noa Micaela Fields. Reprinted by permission of Noa Micaela Fields.
Source:
Zoeglossia: Poem of the Week, May 17, 2021
(Zoeglossia, 2021)
