Taxonomy was Adam's task.
To name the unnamed is the poet's cause.
But an ordered conglomeration,
a measured ornamentation of signs and letters
only approximates:
This sort of color. That sort of sound.
From Myanmar to donnybrook.
Each word is hyperlinked: historical;
mouth-full of severed tongues and wars…
War itself is a very old word,
and world even older.
And as for woman, and what came before?
They'd utter,
wuh wuh wuh…
The sound of wanting more.
Georgia O'Keeffe — Neck by Alfred Stieglitz (1921)
