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AnneMarie says the kids with smaller vocabularies use thing more
the guy, who did that thing,
that thing over there, and not this thing
in that movie
the thing is, when you ahve inadequate words, the wold shrinks, I think.
like not having a word for blue,
until you find a piece of the sky
under your hand
in the dessert, and realize
this color, this handful of rock is also the color of the arch of sky
which before was colorless, the color of weather and clouds and
sunrise and sunset
and none of those are blue, or blue enough to find a word for them
some feathers are blue, which makes
sense in a magical fashion, that jays in their raucous dissent
carry flashes of sky and reflection
and that not one atom of their feathers so blue has pigment
you can take it all apart and find
nothing
of
blue
at
all
but when assembled, those feathers reflect light from the sun
the same way the sky does