FOR VOICE
by CAROLYN CHEN
JULY 2005, 2007
Sing or breathe through the following as they pass through your throat:
• water
• phlegm, own and others’
• pelicans (1 pair, joined at point of your choice)
• a single rose
• spiderweb
• roots (sizes: grass to trees)
• dirts (pebbly/loamy/mossy/trailed by tender earthworm)
• balsamic vinegar
• artificial sweetener (4 packets)
• human blood (type AB)
• disintegrated royal body
• a terracotta pot (whole/shattered)
• pillbugs, crawling daintily
• childbirth
• pelicans (flock, learned in arithmetic)
• fish bones (somewhat softened by the vinegar)
• a rainy season
• a large, apologetic bouquet
• a blue glass eye
• anonymous white powders
• mouthful of fruit (forbidden)
• small children (some cranky, a few serene)
• juice of a little western flower (sometimes laid on sleeping eye-lids)
• pelicans (baker’s dozen, learned in eurhythmics)
• years
• moustache (Large. Impressive.)
• love – so much love