Echolalia

By Noa Micaela Fields
via the Poetry Foundation

In other sounds

E wants a mother

[unclear] I hear

bad. Trachea,

trace—translate

[hiss] chase

meaning’s

severed half-

lives for cantos.

Mine pine

after dorsal

fins. Drafts

drown in

throat. I’m

pssst tense

subjunctive

unfolding

spine, needling

form’s tomb

marrow sonata.

Tingly

E taunts bow

fingers dawn

lightly butchers

an author

botches cadence

mutters in violet.

A Note from the Editor
"Noa Micaela Fields is a trans poet who uses hearing aids. 'Echolalia' brings attention to the relationship between speech, sounds, and how these can mediate our experience of poetics and the world around us." - Guest Editor Alisha Isherwood
^{Source: Zoeglossia: Poem of the Week, May 17, 2021 ( Zoeglossia, 2021 )}

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Echolalia