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What is a word? — Depends on who you ask. For instance, in the rigid Flemish taal, so many things that feel like words don’t pass, and my sprung language doesn’t work at al. My sentences are yet another place where stringent rule-embracers don’t agree: to me, an error shows the second face of grammar. The mistakes are what I mean. The thing I value most in any line— drawn, made, wrote, thought; in fantasy or fact— is flexibility: that, like a spine, the art supports the mind by which it’s maked. What use is language flattened, dried in books? Our language lives most when it is mistook. ~~ 'Sonnet for the Second-Language Speaker' by Éireann Lorsung from 'Pattern-book' #FridayPoem #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry@fedigroups.social