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The pink light of night

April 18, 2015April 18, 2015 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

The pink light of night loosened thoughts and tongues; blood pulsed and sped and fizzed and choked off words. But by then words did not matter. 

Verbs in your mouth

April 14, 2015 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

Tongue roll smooth verbs round your mouth like cool pebbles, massaging your tongue and making lips smile. Then clean cut facets that tingle, nettle mint stingle, the sharpness, the crevice, the crack. 

The power of a word

August 15, 2012March 16, 2013 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

In the beginning I was a word. A word one said to another and the other repeated back. And now, and so, I am. I was a word

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