Talking Practice - a poem inspired by a conversation with James Charlton

Words are things
As thingy as any other thing
Using the wordness of words to communicate the thingness of things
Is problematic
Like trying to convey a single word by taking a photograph

Before a thing passes through the double-slit of language
It just is.
Afterwards,
It is something: only that thing, no other thing
Defined. Decided.