Fran Fernández Arce is a Chilean poet currently living in…
Every day I find a handful of new ways to pronounce
the same words. Standing and reflecting, my brain echoes
leftover letters and sentences and pieces of talk-talk.
Every day I find new words for concepts
about concepts which I treasure, the substances
of an outspoken, soft-spoken universe of texts.
It all returns. Like a bell toll, my mind announces
itself. Every morning I find new songs stuck
at the back of my throat, whispers of reverberations,
whispers of fading whispers, whispers of whispers of whispers.
I repeat myself. I repeat myself.
Every sound has a double, triple, multiple version of an original
Indo-European root, fermented soil. My songs are trees.
Like free-flowing moss, my world is covered
by a reverent layer of speech. To speak is to sing is to grab all the odd bits.
Languages are never original, languages proliferate.
They circle the globe. My words migrate.
Fran Fernández Arce is a Chilean poet currently living in the intersection between Suffolk, England, and Santiago, Chile. She is a poetry editor for Moonflake Press and poetry reader for The Chestnut Review. You can find her on Twitter as @dylanblue3 and on Instagram as @effie.1995