The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller

Author:Kei Miller [Kei Miller]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847774323
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2014-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

The cartographer sucks his teeth

and says – every language, even yours,

is a partial map of this world – it is

the man who never learnt the word

‘scrupe’ – sound of silk or chiffon moving

against a floor – such a man would not know

how to listen for the scrupe of his bride’s dress.

And how much life is land to which

we have no access? How much

have we not seen or felt or heard

because there was no word

for it – at least no word we knew?

We speak to navigate ourselves

away from dark corners and we become,

each one of us, cartographers.

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