The Birth of Language
and adam rose fearful in the garden without words for the grass his fingers plucked without a tongue to name the taste shimmering in his mouth did they draw blood the blades did it become his early lunge toward language did his astonishment surround him did he shudder did he whisper eve
(discovered on The Red Hand Files - Issue #179)
–
Lucille Clifton.
(2022)
Clifton's Collected Works.