Friday, June 2, 2017

We have to know about the nose and its utility in poetry. One question, Among human organs, does the nose intuit — knnow — more lyric than the eye, know more than the throat, or even our ears? The nose makes English mid-alphabet consonants pronounceable — M and/or N. And if the nose makes mine pronounceable, it’s hummable, too, and that could just be the sloping tip — for the nose — in regard to its lyric purpose. Hard to hum what our heart or soul may be ‘saying’ — we can’t tell without sizing up other body functions, intuiting humming from the nose.