Deaf-Blind
Signing
For O
fingers
that encase gently, & more soft
than
the shell of a hermit and kind.
flesh
curved & velveteen concave the
undulating
mouth of conch ring box
precious
& held cargo, flesh & communication
to be known or at the very
least react
digits
tangle & multiply, segregate the
movement
fluid into a meaning or
something
that means something else
like
a word a transfer language = the ability to refer to
something not there
something
of flesh to flesh:
in
skin there is so much touch that is not tactile
of
opening & closing, presses & retreat
closeness,
the intimacy of a pinch
a
kite tacking under unseen pressures
soft
& hard
squeeze
laking
as together as together
it is fragile, the as, a kind
of comparison
&almost
a mask, something to pretend behind, something false & that is not certain
or comfortable in what it is. that reveals a lot. although to be comfortable in
what something is is not everything
The sweat on our
skin held us.
He
will sketch out his communicative aim in the future perfect tense
The
project of the speaker is always a matter of imaginative reconstruction for his
interpreter and so is attended by a certain vagueness and uncertainty.
He
said this isn’t what I meant to happen.
