The words are tightening around my throat

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My poem "Logos" has been accepted by Lone Star Stories. It was written in December 2006, right before I moved out of my apartment in New Haven; I played sortes with the OED to find its vocabulary. It should appear in October.

Speaking of such things, check out seajules' "Its Hour Come Round at Last." It's one of the poems I love.

I still want to write that one about newts.

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Congratulations!

Whence comes the title? Thence?

And thanks for the link to "Its Hour Come Round at Last." It's lovely.

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Whence comes the title? Thence?

Just from the Greek: λόγος, "word," "speech," "reason," "story," etc. In the beginning was the.

And thanks for the link to "Its Hour Come Round at Last." It's lovely.

Tell seajules!

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Just from the Greek: λόγος, "word," "speech," "reason," "story," etc. In the beginning was the.

Oh, zut alors! I'm sorry. I'm not quite that dense, really, I just seem that way, sometimes.

What I meant was "Whence the header of your post?"--as in "The words are tightening around my throat"--rather than "Whence the title 'Logos'?"

Shouldn't've been commenting so rapidly, when I was just before leaving for the Playwright. Sorry about that.

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What I meant was "Whence the header of your post?"--as in "The words are tightening around my throat"--rather than "Whence the title 'Logos'?"

Gotcha. It's from PJ Harvey's "Dear Darkness":

The words are tightening around my throat and
And around the throat of the one I love
The timing, the typing, and the tightening
Around the throat of the one I love
The timing, the typing, and the tightening