Tasting Braille

People can ... read Braille with their lips and their tongue ... — David J. Linden, The Kojo Nnamdi Show Whitman is a foot-long sub of grass-fed beef, Falstaff, a fat onion ring, Ophelia, a wailing wine. Judas Iscariot’s kiss turns my lips against themselves. Emily D makes my tongue want to fly a kite. The tongues of angels, I cannot swallow.