BABEL poem
“Babel” by Rae Armantrout
“Let us go down
and confuse their language
so we may distinguish
the people
from our thoughts.”
*
Could it be true
that the baby is afraid
his wish
to gobble us up
has been realized
already?
*
Hard to say
since we’ve thrown our voice
into the future
and the past.
(from Versed, winner of the 2010 Pultizer Prize; reprinted here with permission of the author)
