Word

 

The naming is all.

Naming masters a thing.

Every city

Was first a dream,

And between the dreaming

And the building-up,

There was a word -

A thousand words -

Invocations, plans, commands -

A babble of practical abstraction -

Until the city stood,

Stark, inarguable,

Washed in a silence

Only now possible -

Afloat in the dawn

Of a future now begun.