Wednesday, February 27, 2013

dialect


"dialect requires its own room"
my words 

where wall and word meet
and shaded moments are covered in downplay and stereo-type
my thoughts

"retro" you said, "lets do retro"

i stepped up to meet your expectation
you stepped out to meet a contemporary 
dialect remained
cornered by two marbled
cat-eyes
set in ceramic Siamese
cracked and deemed beyond 
repair 


bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2013




3 comments:

  1. intersting how you use dialect as an object in this....pretty cool closure too, the broken cat watching over it...

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  2. Liking the words, and the dialect, Barbara. And yet, I had a hard time thinking of "dialect" as an object of atoms/protons, neutrons, electrons. Not critiquing this--it is MY failing to think that everything has to be a concrete object.

    YOU and Stephen King, my Dear!
    SWEEEET!

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  3. It's like talking to a wall sometimes.
    ("where wall and word meet")

    Dialectic words and thoughts and others often remain beyond repair.

    And let's not forget the Minnesota dialect. :)

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