WORDS AS FOCI FOR ART
Words can be music if spoken
Sonorous sentiment
Words, the substance of
Lexicons, dictionaries, etymologies
Meaning
Words are rigorously attached to their definitions
Meanings, less so
Words can trace back into a vacant etymology
Meaning detach from word
Attachments, words
Weak modes of connection
Breaking under the strain they must carry
Silence
Time together spent silent
Conjoining time
Left to language
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Definitions, music, meaning
Words
The substance of drama
Scripted language
The extended moment together
Sharing a single script together
Comedy or tragedy
Ribaldry, betrayal
The curtain comes down
Bringing the play to its quietus
Each returns to private discourse
Departing from the play
Fiction for fact
What was made
Left lifeless
The text closed.
David Fekete 