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Human Hymn

By Nick Trelstad

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.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Winter Poems/Jan 2021

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