Books

Books (first draft 7/5/2023)

What is it about words
the way we use words to describe words

or define words by using words

that we may not know the definitions of.

Words are vibrations

and those vibrations can be captured in metaphor

like an insect in amber.

God speaks words

and then light,

then firmament,

then seas,

then sun, moon, and stars,

then earth and vegetation,

then birds and sea creatures,

then animals and people

all vibrating, all speaking.

Books are like insects in amber

or like fossils or like petrified trees-

but not quite,

because when I read the words out loud

they are alive, pulsating, vibrating.

The bones of animals turn to stone.