Warmth Up and Down

The tip of the tongue
needs to bounce before it dances
wriggle before it sings
and fall back in love
with its voice box
before it says its pieces. 

All speech reaches
for the place where understanding
waters the falls
the original stream
whose tributaries flood the halls
a house of reputation
founded on a bed
of rock and rock and molten iron
philological to the core.

Once warm,
the sun does not reheat
but for its fire's fires
whose light lights
a system whose lives
are solar all the way back
to the beginning.