Were John Donne awake, he writes: We have to know more about the nose and its choice utility in poetry. Old question, Among human organs, does the nose intuit (hold) more lyric than the eye, know more than the throat, or even our ears? The nose makes mid-alphabet English pronounceable — M and/orN. And if the nose makes it pronounceable, it’s hummable, too, and that could just be the sloping tip of the nose’s lyric purpose! Hard to hum what the heart may be ‘saying’ — we can’t tell without sizing up other body functions, humming throughout the nose.