35
unoxidized,
you are quiet.
Patient.
Patiently waiting for the tectonic plates to shift,
for the earth to rotate:
backwards.
So up can be down.
So soil can air.
So, in this room full of
people talking,
you can be a
people talking
with your mother tongue behind your
clenched teeth,
clenched,
clenched and grinding down to bleeding gums,
pouring from your beating heart
through your veins
like a tremor.