‘Snowshoe and chauve-souris’ by Ellen Dillon
Language lies in smithereens.
We’ve taken all the bits apart
and spread them on the kitchen floor;
the reassembled clock is tock-less.
To make up, there are parts left over:
letters, spaces, cast-off sounds,
enough to craft a creole from;
a dam against the unsaid,
a patchwork lexical field of sheep,
a silence built on stutterings.
From issue #6: spring/summer 2018
About the Author
Ellen Dillon is a writer and teacher from Limerick. Her pamphlets and collections include Excavate (Poems after Pasolini) (Oystercatcher Press), Achatina, achatina! (SoundEye Press), Sonnets to Malkmus (Sad Press) and Morsel May Sleep (Sublunary Editions). Her poems have appeared in Amberflora, Datableed, Erotoplasty, MOTE, Stand, Stinging Fly, Zarf and elsewhere. Her latest book, Butter Intervention, is available from Veer Press.
