Taylor Johnson - Jan 19, Iyengar I

A young poet from Washington, D.C. who lives in Southern Louisiana, “where they listen.” A beautiful, musical new voice. This piece caught my eye because we had a discussion last week, before class, about the origins and meaning of the word portmanteau.

I want a series of mhmms in the language to hold over ecstaticism. The various portmanteaus of my home could do: wylin (wild and wily, maybe some assertion of will) to mean out of place and beyond. To approximate to horn's appearance I can say: that joint go- meaning a continuation, a lack of arrival or departure, a way out through around. That the horn resists audience, it just go. And where are we going getting somewhere?