Sunday, October 16, 2022

Haunted By The Lost New

two thousand years’ worship
decided by committee cuts
of that warring imperial Latin
from those imperfect Greek translations
from Hebrew from Aramaic
languages birthed by the multiple 
unfathomably ancient constraints ages gone
traced by those threads reversed
might we not re-envision the past
become linguistic archeologists 
philological explorers
ontonauts
of the fractured origins 
of this burdensome present
might then the future 
take on the shape of the new

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