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Word Made Flesh

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Mask of Lincoln Workshop Daniel Chester French   Word Made Flesh   But erasing does not stop with new language, and that my friend, is my sorrow . . .                                       Yiyun Li                                     Dear Friend,  from My Life                                                 I Write to You in Your Life   I wonder if after having been gagged or not being able to or allowed   to speak   once the cloth is unknotted at the back of the head and allowed to fall into   one’s open hands the words trapped there would eventually be decipher   able, again translate-   able, and if the one bringing them back to life, returning them to their air and sound                                       and gurgle and bubble   and syllable will it be enough to equal a word voiced, is it enough to hear them stir &                                       limp around   reacclimating?  The words I mean.  The now i