Awake, our sonneteer writes: We have to know about the nose and its utility in poetry. One question, does the nose intuit (h
old) more lyric than the eye, know more than the throat, or even our ears? The nose makes the mid-alphabet pronounceable in English — M an
d/or N. 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 from the nose.