I have to know the wage of text

For a poet, silence is an acceptable, even flattering response, 
claimed Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.

Another claimed 
that the calm that is the history of silence 
is the poet's revenge.

Look, I walk around with a quill 
between my teeth

Some people have their sensory hearing absorbed into in the most unexpected organs, and some will qualify in silence, accordingly I have to know the wage 
of 
text —

Surely, the initial reaction in humans 
in their early lives is the voice, after
which everything else is a charade.

I am new

They don’t know 
Where I came from
I must connect the- leg
With the waist 
And the pelvis to the spine

That’s the way when items
Are separated from bodies 
And an artificial 
Lens is implanted 
In the - eye.

Who said it’s possible to move 
Organs
Away from their 
Place?

Who said?

Tali Cohen Shabtai, born in Jerusalem, Israel, is a highly-esteemed international poet with works translated into many languages.

She has authored three bilingual volumes of poetry, “Purple Diluted in a Black’s Thick”(2007), “Protest” (2012) and “Nine Years From You”(2018). A fourth volume is forthcoming in 2022. 

Tali began writing poetry at the age of six. She lived for many years in Oslo, Norway, and the U.S.A. and her poems express both the spiritual and physical freedom paradox of exile. Her cosmopolitan vision is obvious in her writings.

Tali is known in her country as a prominent poet with a unique narrative. As one commentator wrote: “She doesn’t give herself easily, but is subject to her own rules.”