I speak in tongues
in other words
other languages
I do not know

like the believer
who speaks in tongues
from the spirit
not the mind
my words are not mine

but unlike the believer
with anointed words
I am polyglot
with glossitis
my words flat without gloss

I am a babbling poet
a wanderer in the alphabet
seeking my glossographer

but I want no glossarist
who will define me

I call a glossator
who will charge into the dark places
where lines run skew

will you be my glosser?

don't read my words only

read the margins where
the words begin and end

read the spaces in the words
where the unwritten is written

read beyond my words
to scribbled words
of others almost hidden
in my words

and speak in tongues
in other words
other languages
you do not know