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The Difference Between Writing and Speaking the Words Out Loud by George Moore

June 27, 2014 by Every Writer

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The Difference Between Writing and Speaking the Words Out Loud

by George Moore

Things that wants most to be said
never fits the names we choose for them.

I scale it back to the love hate loss
of grief endured. The languages of clay.

Men of clay. A heavier light filters through
the pines here at dusk. How do you say it?

Nothing performs well before a strange god
missing a heart.

Spoken in many tongues, but they are flesh,
frenulum, noise-anchor, blood vessels,

taste buds. The perfect but sacred text
are the taste buds. Writing

is a silence on the stillness. The surf below
can only be imagined. Rage for order.

As easy as falling down stairs.

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Publications include The Hermits of Dingle (FutureCycle Press, 2013), and a collection coming out this year, Children’s Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry, 2014). I’ve published poetry with The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, and a good bit internationally of late. Having taught for decades at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I presently live with my wife on the southern shore of Nova Scotia.

Filed Under: Poems about Poetry

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