Language gap. . . words that are meaningless to me.

[bytwilight17]

THE LANGUAGE
By Robert Creeley

Locate I
love you some-
where in

teeth and
eyes, bite
it but

take care not
to hurt, you
want so

much so
little. Words
say everything,

I
love you
again,

then what
is emptiness
for. To

fill, fill.
I heard words
and words full

of holes
aching. Speech
is a mouth.

Exactly how I feel, vocalized.

Comments

[akanefive]

not so much vocalized as written down. however, if you were reading it as you was typing then its a moot point.

[bytwilight17]

Vocalize can also mean, simply, to articulate. However, poems were originally spoken, as were stories, before a written language was developed. So, either way, I stick with vocalized. Plus, we read this poem aloud in class, so I think that's why that word pops into my mind.