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ginneke · 1 year

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my voice is like a tool, a key, a scalpel carefully crafting incisions on the page or in the air, lifting words from the viscera -- searching in the entrails of language for cadence and rhythm and music, as if searching for prophetic notions, the building blocks of communication that let me say it right.

my voice is a honk. (HONK!) ebbed away with the infection taking over my throat and leaving just this relic. squeaky hoarse whisper. HONK. now it goes again, and the air rushes through as though in a tunnel, finding nothing to break against.

#my writing #cw medical imagery #this was a 5 minute challenge to write a sentence/passage using only simile and metaphor on the starting note of “my voice”#the first ended up as an exploration of the intersection between verbal and written 'voice' as a writer #and was semi influenced by being in a room full of doctors at the time #(my fountain pen is my scalpel)#the second ended up being about my bout of laryngitis three weeks ago 😂#i've been prone to it for years and it's always acutely strange to experience #particularly other people's reactions to your lack of voice

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