The Gap Between Sound and Meaning by Rebecca Sturgeon

The gap between sound and meaning holds

past lives

discarded selves

unheard pleadings of childhood.

It wrestles sound into interpretation,

chokes out the breath that made it.

What would it take to reach back --

To air flowing over vocal cords or --

Even further back to bits of atmosphere that become air

to gaps in atoms

to space itself --

Large enough to drop everything into,

watch it become smaller and smaller and finally catch

onto the fabric of everything?

Then can we just be still with one another

and understand.

Rebecca Sturgeon loves how words go. She writes to explore the process and works to instill a love of the creative process with other people. She lives in Kentucky, where the beautiful landscape is an endless source of delight and inspiration. She regularly shows her work at rebeccasturgeon.substack.com