alogia

whatever it is
--either sun's ruthlessness,
or sea's nymphomania,
or sparrow's drunkenness,
or even tongue's merkabah--
what i can know
is
only
language's muteness

απονον δ' ελαβον χαρμα παυροι τινες
(Pindar, Olympian Ode 10:22)