A vowel
a quality of tone
Contained and given form
by percussive consonants
A sharpness of tongue
restrains the open
A pursing of lips
Collapses the resonant
As pillars to a temple
that hold the spirit
The consonants capture
and apprehend in meaning
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Now we divide the word
and separate
into mere sounds
of unbound qualities
and liberate the spirit
An energy set free
to expand and dissipate
its pattern to propagate
through space
and through time
Inflating as if a bubble
its capacity is cast outwards
until its energy is spent
And the plenitude of space
rests back into stillness