Warm your words as you warm your notes.
Speak in long tones, rich and deep.
Test the weight of them on your tongue.
Repeat them, varying speeds,
Slowly first, until the meanings fall away
Like smooth gowns at end of day.
Let them be naked sounds.
Then dress them again, articulately,
In soft harmonics.
Widen circumference.
Speak in colors.
Consider their start:
Warlike, stone, or sand?
Stir them to see where the current runs.
Even if the water flows muddy at first,
Wait
One full breath—
Streams clear, after
storms.
And speak.
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