Rimbaud’s
‘Vowels’ describe associations, emotions, impressions, objects,
unconsciousness. They model modern sensory response. But where did the letters
come from? We intuit the most primal as I, the elementary mark signifying
singularity, and O, the point around which everything revolves: sun and moon.
The others seem creative variations on these two, even S is a line gone
serpentine. If I is a person, A is proof one person needs another. E reaches
out, as language will to explain existence. U is this month’s quarter-moon, cup
of good fortune. Nothing so complex, yet, as Thursday Eighth October Two
Thousand and Fifteen.
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