Award-winning poetry by Jane Poling
Jane Poling, one of our undergraduate concentrators, has won the Roger M. Jones Poetry contest for her poetry, including Consonants A Sonnet
Consonants, a Sonnet
In English speech the following abide,
Yet select few we boldly aspirate.
The liquids, semi-vowels, a few glide,
Distinguished as we coarticulate.
And then we come to basic allophones,
Which fill the classes of English phonemes.
These unit sounds more frequently are known,
In floods of sleeping modern linguist dreams.
Yet more to us the English language gives,
(This rhythmic noise linguistically expressed)
In affricates, the plosives, fricatives.
Oh, bursting air pulmonically egressed!
I rest myself in consonantal bliss,
As sounds pour out my facial orifice.