Kimberly Burnham Poems

Broca's area in charge of production
revisions, revisions, revisions
generating new language to improve
what is already on the page
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Is it good the writer askes
wernicke's area engaged
same side as Broca's
Wernicke's area on the left
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Signals pinging writing to dictation
contrasted with holding a pen
on the writing surface without moving
dictation processed by auditory regions, ears, brain sides
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Researchers ask,

'Does self-affirmation, cognitive processing
or discovery of meaning explain
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"See" in your mind's eye
read a description of a place
your visual cortex is working in a similar way
look at something in real life
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When we write our story we 'see'
what we want to see
it plays out on the page the way we remember
what we saw
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Kemtuk is a Nimboran language of Indonesia
spoken some 80 kilometers southwest
of the provincial capital, Jayapura
with three dialects Kemtuk, Iwalom, and Ikuoy
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What I know of oysters could fit between the toes of my flip flops
on an internship in 1977 at an oyster farm in Hawaii
I learned oysters are a culinary delicacy I don't favor
no, stronger than that, I find them disgusting
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"Ubêr" means to chase
to worry
ransack a jungle for wild animals
thoroughly annoy
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Have you seen a piece of art
in a peaceful museum

Taken a peek
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