<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><font color="#222222" class="">The Tongue Says Loneliness</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><br class=""></font></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="540" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">The tongue says loneliness, anger, grief, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">but does not feel them. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">As Monday cannot feel Tuesday, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">nor Thursday </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">reach back to Wednesday </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">as a mother reaches out for her found child. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Not a bell, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">but the sound of the bell in the bell-shape, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">lashing full strength with the first blow from inside the iron.</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jane Hirshfield</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="540" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>