...(in response)

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some    their mouths open           

tectonic trench croak

some      from the throat, murmur or hitch

some     astride ocean breath            

freely float. others 

signal, others point.

above air buckles       space shrinks

(say limbic, control ground's shake) 

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a mountain’s mimic

murmurs suspicious sounds

round winter's cowl
...susurrate / exhale...

(say shadow instead)

 some slender necks

stretch to the moon

silvery slivers

silhouttes of mignonettes

(say crane instead) 

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(it)

is a means to catch one’s eye

to point to a path, an enlightenment

(it)

is a bazaar

not unlike green streak

glimpsed through garden spaces, broken

(say feathers, instead)

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there are a million ways to pronounce that: 

say it like a wave passing under the palate or a warmth undulating, then curling towards the throat

say it like a hike to the incisors or outwards to the corners of the lips shaping a kiss

say it like thunder, ahead of plains, racing...

to start.

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speak before 10,000 years pass

before you can

before you, a proto-     a pre-

tongue guiding waste (say guttural, instead)

crafts melancholy warbles

say bird songs, instead

February would have been about

...the Bs, were it not for the following:


Language can be adapted easily, and like religion, is a kind of belief system - Prof. RM Pitchappan, Madurai Kamaraj University


Linguistic purism is motivated more by national sentiment and cultural pride - Sonya Lynn Scheel (The idea of purity of language and the impulse to protect its virtue)...