Wing
Language
By
Marilyn Jaeger
A
serif is a wing, in fonts
Of
characters in a text.
They
carry the eye more easily
From
one word to the next.
I
first feared this was beating
A
dead horse; let it rest.
Then
recalled a book of my father’s
A
Winged Horse Anthology – the best
In
poetry to nineteen thirty
With
Pegasus, winged horse, as theme.
Poetry,
words, flying accomplishment
Wings,
(serifs),leading on it does seem.
Trodding
leafed Mendota paths
l
Listened to fragments passing by
Elemental,
words reach an ear, like
Angel
wings whisp from the sky.
Our
words have wings, written or spoke.
How
they may lift, or sometimes, suppress.
Take
delight in the presence of seraphim:
Words
fly to us, God’s angels’, “Yes!”
Indeed our words have wings, knit wonderfully from before we were born, as Psalm 139 affirms! I love the trope (tropic?) layers in this poem, from the mythical derivation of words we use today--'siren' is like that--to the allusions of our heritage and the summoning up of them "from emotion recollected in tranquility," as Wordsworth encourages. We are with you, Mendota paths and journeys to and fro. It's lovely looking back.
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