It was noon when I remembered Sharon, Thomas and Aaron. Perhaps it was because I was in tune with the ways that I am constantly communicating and with the experiences that we have prior to language. My encounter with them was brief but I cannot stop hearing their voices. Well, two of them at least. I wasn't able to truly hear Aaron. Psychological and Psychiatric theories and techniques attempted to re-frame and interpret their voices in my head. My rhythm of perception was losing tune with the ways of communication and with the experiences that we have prior to language. My perception was becoming in sync with what Lisa Blackman calls dominant meaning systems and I was quickly forgetting why I had been profoundly moved when I had become aware that it was noon when I remembered their voices.
“Certain groups within society are dominant and control access to and the use of social symbols. Therefore, members of cultural minority groups in a society, according to Littlewood (women, children, and the “mentally-ill”) have to use the majority culture to articulate their concerns(Ardener 1971).”
How do I begin to articulate to you my experience or the experiences of their voices? I know of one way that is both familiar and unfamiliar to me; poetry.
As I heard the poem LUVINA in my head, I traveled through a perspective that attempted to deconstruct the language that is used in the structure of dominant symbolic communication systems. The lines, "THE BEHAVIOR IS YOURS BUT NOT THE INTERPRETATION. THE BEHAVIOR IS YOURS BUT NOT THE INTERPRETATION." reminded me that it would be noon once again and that I would be able to hear their voices without being contained.
“I love noon. I love how it’s so alive. I love noon. I love how it’s so alive. Everyone is awake.”