Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Philtrum

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Near where the words come from,

through which come the vibrations of a hum,
it has a funny name: the philtrum.

Everyone knows the nose
and mouth, how they open and close.
Everyone talks about the eye, a vortex like a rose.

How many even know the name of the philtrum?
An unassuming kind of plectrum
in the court-orchestra of the kingdom

of the face,
that place
that for humans is the center of meaning and grace.

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