To speak
is to sing.
Just try to say
a sentence and not
make music.
Every word
a rhythm,
every syllable
a song.
O, phonemes
simple sounds
separating
drink from
dragon,
feast from
famine,
Zeus, zipline,
zinfandel.
Strawberries and cream,
American Dream.
Right, wrong,
Atomic bomb.
Holy, harmonic,
Human.
Nick Trelstad is a senior in the College of St. Scholastica’s English education program. He still stans Phillis Wheatley to this day.