Stutter Poetica

There where language ends is not where the unsayable begins, but rather the matter of language. He who has never reached, as in a dream, that woodlike substance of language that the ancients called silva, remains, even when he is silent, a prisoner to representations.

—Georgio Agamben


    Spring again:

                the meadow longs            to repeat itself



                                        Grass sprouts ligamental         in the swale



                Seedthreads

                tendril frantically            toward heat

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