How She Discovered Wonder ...

For Natalie


Dream–time words surfaced from the depths of her mind.  She was attentive, allowing them to form clusters as they spiralled and turned, so it seemed to her, like exotic marine creatures. At first the shapes they formed were the colours of sound, bright staccato and purple-deep legato. No meanings attached to them as yet, their forms were amorphous, lacking in the sharp edge of articulation.

Enigmatic complexes took shape, embodying experience that had never been within the reach of recall, complexes that formed crystals in her imagination. As the sonorities of silent speech overwhelmed her, she reached for her pen.


The puzzle-piece words
grouped in unexpected patterns,
on the empty page.