“Instructions to a Speaker” – Joanna M. Weston
by richibi
“Freedom Of Speech“ (1943)
________
it’s been a while since I’ve featured
a poem, but this one tickled me
positively pink
see if you’ll agree
Richard
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Instructions to a Speaker
analyze the seated audience
each face a complex sentence
parse the roaming eyes
and conjugate restless hands
let the grammar of their bodies
straighten under your voice
until words slough into the book
you have created page by face
from the biographies extending
lip-by-line across the room
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