The Dream World by Alison Pick

Author:Alison Pick
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2008-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

TALKING OR NOT TALKING

SCRABBLE

I’ll tell you a secret: I’m making this up

out of the letters I drew. Everything written

is just provision, the word now sprawled

across the corner of the board:

a triple-word score. Still,

the wine cannot conceal the little failures

we both know: the X in hex – just been played –

falls short of expectation. Let me say I love

the way you lay your tiles with such abandon,

slapping them into their slots

like signs accepting

meaning. Because, tonight, the game implies

that things may be the way they seem,

that spelling out the lack in language

won’t result in less. Less, well-placed, makes liver

sliver, conjures up that slip-of-a-moon, the one

that dangles from the sky

as image hangs from speech.

The way your glance makes more of me;

slide your R in next to my E. We’ll build

a ladder of consummate

pleasure, one long vowel at a time.

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