wh: stepmother

 

 

my strict stepmother



       english tongue -- wigglish
       a snake a fish
       the grammar-bird flying over
       the boundless melody
       of liquid phrases
	   
       the hungry snake
       the slippery fish
       the bird of steel
       demands the grain the pearls the words      
	   
       english -- the rarefied mountain air
       english -- a rock on my chest



			 
		
	   
wh,
1992-04-06