THE VOCABULARY.(Poem) Poetry | October 1, 1999| | COPYRIGHT 1999 Modern Poetry Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

 
   When was the last time something "ensued"? 
   When was the last time anybody acted 
   with "alacrity"? was "dilatory"? "dyspeptic"? 
   This is language disappearing from our breath, 
   the way "no hieroglyphic document 
   of the third millennium B.C. has come down to us," 
   at least from the Hittites, whose medium 
   was wood. Of course the atoms of that wood 
   are with us yet -- by now, some may be in your hand, 
   your brain. And yet they don't reform, to say 
   I cannot master the torment of my heart.(*) 
   -- Or do they? Haven't you wanted to turn and claim 
   ...

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