Paper Milk

PAPER MILK


The written develops when calcium brings life to ink; letters are collagen of thoughts. A newborn alphabet cries its vowels and the page will nourish them: a opens into a u, u becomes a tiny cup, fills with the milk of paper; the e, too, unfurls to an o and nurses on the colostrum of pulp—thought attaches sound from oral when put on a thin sheet of white. Form, a structure of feeling, with an instrument of print, means to foster language—verso and recto will be the caretakers of our vernacular, our infant text.

Orlando White