Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon by Ali Znaidi

Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

You think it’s sugar at the tip

of the tongue. I agree.

Sugar sketching cupcakes on the

skyscape.

A mirage yielding real water.

Asphyxiated aspirations

re-animated.

Inside my brain, broken images

spackled.

& dream tastes sweet,

though I’m still under the tip-of-the-tongue

phenomenon.

Written on 28 02 2013

Originally published in The Siren on 05 02 2014