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Dialogue

deborah harris

Dialogue: a conversation between two or more people

Conversation: interchange of thoughts by spoken words

Between: the space separating two points

Perhaps dialogue is the bridge we attempt to build that would allow us to cross over to another’s point of view. We throw a line of words and see if they can catch them, hold them, secure them to something they could trust themselves to step onto. Lines criss-crossing over what can be a formidable chasm, a risk to even want to attempt such a feat of communication, such a link of transportation.

Each word much more than the letters written, envelopes of meaning opened by every mouth which has ever spoken, intoned, bemoaned, phoned to distances too far for bridges to span. And we move along those tightropes as if they were paved highways and we could speed towards understood and standing more easily than a destination driven to. There are more fatal accidents in sentences and abbreviated utterances than ever do occur in silence. But we desire more than to remain safe and sound. The sound wants to be heard, wants to be recognized as what is. Listen.