<i> The tongue must travel to unravel what the mind trusts to the lungs. </i> : Breathless

by Douglas Messerli

Through is always made when up & down delay admit before behind comes between complete. Hesitation

is a distance from the lean to bar of belly. That is why the globe is covered.

From “Maxims From My Mother’s Milk/Hymns to Him: A Dialogue” (Sun & Moon Press: $12.95; 69 pp.; 1-55713-031-0). Messerli is the author of “River to Rivet: A Poetic Trilogy” and the editor of “ ‘Language’ Poetries,” published by New Directions. He is also the director of Sun & Moon Press. Douglas Messerli. Reprinted by permission of Sun & Moon Press.