Talia Isaacson holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she received a Henfield Prize in fiction. She lives in Oakland, California.

Stutter Poetica

by Talia Isaacson
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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