in voices

---The words are true?
-------Words cannot be true.
----They don't know how to.

They can skirt around
---help point you there
-------and maybe even

---------------------------touch

---but just lightly,
-------just lightly...
------ever so slightly...

--like the wings of the moth on the bulb

----------before taking you away again.

fingers trace engravings, air expelled --- in voices

--And if you shake them up a little-
-------------------these words,

-----put them in unfamiliar

---------------------------------settings

-then they might
----shed light on-
------help YOU
------------------shed light on

-----what's really going on here.

-what's really going on here
---in a place beyond these

etchings in sand

etchings and sand

etchings and sound
a-shifting

------------in voices