Start at the heart, if you can stomach it.
\nNo lily-livered words. You’ve got the gall
\nTo lung forth consonants, to spleen your vowels.<\/p>\n
Compose your verses from the convolute
\nVessels and arteries of the living language.
\nGive each line spine and sinew, might and muscle.<\/p>\n
Full-blooded rhetoric with pounding pulse,
\nOr placid meditations deep as breath:
\nGive it your best shot. Go with your gut.<\/p>\n
Nerve it all up in the skin of sound.
\nLet dry bones live. Make eyes taste, fingers hear.
\nSing the body, electric, intricate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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