Talking About Our Feelings

It took time for feelings to enter language.

We began with sibilants, barks,

then pointing, so of course they did -

what is the ostensive for Schadenfreude?

Just as vocalizations migrate

toward the front of our shiftless mouths

from the back of our throat. In English,

we had wrã∂; Norse gave us angr.

But it takes time to receive a word

and make use of it: to even say I am angry