750.13: Fissure of Tongue

many taught tongues are arrow bent
speaking tight toothed babble

if she speaks seven tongues
without love she sounds as a locust mandible

let all towers be built with one tongue
that you may understand which beams I speak of

we were afraid of animal tongues
salivating in the wide world

if he speaks in languages of lilies
without love his tongue is but a golden slug

now the serpent was a more crafty tongue
and smelled innocence from her direction

we huddled together speaking with plain tongues
of immortality like god

god speaks without tongue
among tree shade in cool evenings

cavil moses of your slow tongue
but he will teach it what to speak

angels’ tongues have dialects
some speak with falling accents

oh love! that we are sundered from our fellows
on the baked plains of shinar

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