"Red Cross-Bar Framed," For Nall, by Jon Berry 1/16/2008

"Red Cross-Bar Framed," For Nall, by Jon Berry 1/16/2008
6" x 8" oil pastel on paper

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Mu

For Jake

Mu

Mutter

Muther

Myth

Early utter entrances

Looking for the homeland of language

Language on loan

Entrusted to the sporogenesis of the species

And the sounds press into the mud

and stones bear the marks of one age forwarded to another

The shell no longer holds and begins to crack

Worlds scream

neck deep in agony birth

Language presses into the moist formations of life.

I speak.

We speak.

The dolphins speak.

And codes crawl in the skin until all has been written down

And then the end of writing

still

Jon Berry--1.14.09