What has happened? <br />language eludes me <br />the nice specifying <br />words of my life fail <br />when I call <br /> <br />Ah says a friend <br />dried up no doubt <br />on the desiccated <br />twigs in the swamp <br />of the skull like <br />a lake where the <br />water level has been <br />shifted by highways <br />a couple of miles off <br /> <br />Another friend says <br />No no my dear perhaps <br />you are only meant to <br />speak more plainly<br /><br />Grace Paley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/words-438/
