To Utterance,
by Lyn Plummer
For patterns
traced, incised;
inscribed vestments built layer upon layer. Thread upon thread,
decorated, covered, protected, concealed:
the body layered with pattern, materiality. Sensuality lost,
mind emerges written with power.
Mute traces
unpicked from the experiences-of-the-flesh. Forms
and signs de-threaded,
strung
out, twisted and knotted
re-inscribed,
needled into new ciphers.
Magnificence
in hushed procession
cloaked in the unraveled markings of the flesh,
the long forbearance of the skin. Memory so inscribed.
Re-picked beyond the measured silence of space, brought
to utterance.
Lyn Plummer ©
September, 2001
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