Vievee Francis — How Delicious to Say It

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Building up in lists of delicious words — uvular, hibiscus, loquacious, shuttlecock, dollop, chipotles and chocolate — this poem uses sensual language to make a simple point. Vievee Francis moves past these words and all their suggestions by telling us that her favorite word is the name of her husband — the poet Matthew Olzmann — and how she loves it when he says her name. Love, like this poem, can rejoice in many things, and take its own time to unfold its own delight.

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0:00.0	My name is Paudre Gautuma and one of the things about love poetry is that love poetry
0:08.0	asks you not just to write a love poem of your own, but to pay attention to the way that
0:13.7	the love between you and someone else itself can be a poem.
0:18.5	The love between you and a spouse, the love between you and a friend, between you and
0:23.6	your family, that the shape that that love takes itself can be a poem and to attend
0:30.0	to and to craft and to shape that poem in a way that makes sense for the love that you
0:35.5	share.
0:43.2	How delicious to say it by Vivie Francis.
0:49.1	How delicious to say it, to allow it, like Hibiscus, to wind over the tongue where it opens
0:57.7	at the gate, lending its red, unknowable taste.
1:02.8	What wonder the palette may embrace in a flick behind the teeth, locatious, leabhyn,
1:10.9	shatshyn.
1:11.9	Let us praise the labium that shapes such syllables and parlay of their attendant assumptions
1:20.4	like a shuttlecock struck back and forth over its simple backyard net.
1:27.9	Let us not neglect but laud the mature mouth ready for more than a dollop, the spoonful
1:36.6	of lip, loon, apro, billow or some simple pronoun.
1:43.1	No.
1:45.1	It wants juicence, dastoyevsky, provocations heating the exchange say chipotle's in
1:54.4	the chocolate.
1:56.5	Consider the ovular awakenings of the day, the throat stretched to signify its pleasure
2:03.4	and release, your name spun through the real wound up from the base of me, how I want
2:12.9	to say it, and hear my own again.
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