endangered languages
By yi-ching lin
Tags: 2016, abstract, art, borough, city, city living, colors, creative mapping, diversity, endangered language, Endangered Language Alliance, exhibit, infographic, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, language, Large Wall Series, map, Mariam Ghani, new york city, Nonstop Metropolis, Nonstop Metropolis: The Remix, nyc, queens, queens museum, Rebecca Solnit, Suketu Mehta, The Garden of Forked Tongues, tongue, tongues
Category: art, city, nature, nyc, photo challenges, photography, poetry, street photography, structure, weekly photo challenge, writing
yi-ching lin photography 
the tongue you do not
choose to use loses
elasticity, fumbles
its phonetic alphabet,
but remains resilient,
bobbing across
brainwaves,
suspending
memories as bait
.
20160427:0802
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