Voice

What does speaking mean? What does speaking mean now?

Who is speaking, who gets to speak, who gets to be a who?

How to listen midst all of this…

A place of strange echoes and festering silences, overhung by a gloomy miasma of a million compacted sounds, it remained remote and haunted, the graveyard of countless private babels. (164)
J.G. Ballard ‘The Sound Sweep’

Silence festers if not spoken, words rot in the moist dark under the weight of their contradictions.

Speech is corrupt and contorted, yet burst with glittering sparkle.

Lies have a beautiful perfume. Olfactory seduction. Give me your dirty poem of flowers.

The imperceptible cosmology of unsound and its oscillating relationship to the
undead defines the sweep of this anthology’ contributions. (2)
Goodman, Heys, & Ikoniadou. Unsound: Undead.

Zombie words that keep living, undead, wraiths wrapped in vocal cords.

Bring your garlic, your chachkas, your crosses.