Читать книгу Undoing Hours - Selina Boan - Страница 7

tires on concrete motorcycle thrum pitch smack of shoe after shoe after shoe a podcast plays through a wall & a girl sits in a room with a window

she wants to learn her language but can’t find the noise wonders awe’na na’ha a girl bristled with sun fearless as shadows she wants to find kiya wants to read herself past syntax she is noun inflection light looking footsteps inside a word coming closer

she’s a tongue turned over her desk a muscled red flop half/ nerved not/knowing stumble stutter spill a difference between want & (l)earn how the tongue scrapes itself into sound the girl gathers what she does not know into noise

clip of a rez car revving lake laps & berry coke fizz bingo pings hill humming her roommate’s podcast fades out in a city near the ocean she sits in her bedroom looks up the word for lonely kakaskeyihtamihk eyes on the swing of traffic outside ears like tunnels where sound begins to wave