Variations on Source
to move backward in time
that slow motion unbraiding un-
doing of threads and language
receding toward mother and beyond mother
seed return to cloud, cloud return to ocean
the ocean collapses into gradients of song
to search it blindly in the earth
where sight is a downward push
toward the question of water
the numbers fall off the clock
and become a trail of footsteps in the desert
I read all my books backward
until there is only salt in my mouth
I wake up and find
the origin is not where I left it
Root
noun
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
3. the source or origin of a thing: The love of money is the root of all evil.
4. an offshoot or scion.
5. Mathematics: a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity
6. Grammar.: a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm
7. roots: the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home: He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
8. Music: the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; the fundamental.
9. Machinery: (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Compare crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
–verb (used without object)
10. to become fixed or established.
–verb (used with object)
11. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out); to extirpate; exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
3. the source or origin of a thing: The love of money is the root of all evil.
4. an offshoot or scion.
5. Mathematics: a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity
6. Grammar.: a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm
7. roots: the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home: He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
8. Music: the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; the fundamental.
9. Machinery: (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Compare crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
–verb (used without object)
10. to become fixed or established.
–verb (used with object)
11. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out); to extirpate; exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.
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