Take your hand (you have a hand)

reach behind and touch the vertebrae

at the back of your neck, just below

where they connect to your skull.

(you have a skull)

Hold your hand there for a full minute...

Feel what you are.

garden drawing by j langley             4/28/23

 

Indecipherable

The dictionary reveals that it derives from a Middle French word, not Latin, as I had assumed. I don't know who spoke Middle French. Were their harvests plentiful? Their winters icy cold? Were their joys my joys? What savage, gentle creatures populated their dreams of the future?

Indecipherable vraiment.

4/25/23