Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Fission

Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words
Fission
By Ray Sharp

Written words are stable atoms, elemental units
of meaning that bond in thought molecules,
but when we talk we emit radioactive isotopes
prone to degradation, hot charges that burn 
under the skin. How long is the half-life
of a lie? How strong is a lethal dose of insult?
Could you stand to wear the weight of lead
or would you sooner brave the fallout, naked
to the chain reaction of a critical mass of words?


Especially Borges (May 2010), published as part of Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae, was Ray Sharp's most recent poem to appear at vox poetica.

Posted by Annmarie at 10/1/2010 11:15 PM
Categories: Contributor Series 6, today's words
Tags: Ray Sharp reaction words radioactive critical mass
 

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