Snapshot (polyglut)
Sounds of the other tongue confound. /Sluk./
Zoom in tight and the voids between letters
override their delineation. /Gap./ Metaphors
of a vacuum; the roller-coaster's tingle,
the elevator's deadly drop. /Bø./ /Bæ./ All lan-
guage and just this single space, glottal stops
and fricatives each scrapped up against the other;
/mor/ next to more next to moor next to
/morr,/ /mør,/ /myr,/ /merr,/ gasping for air,
trampling to death.
K. M. Skagen / Trondheim / 16.02.05
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