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I enjoyed this poem.  Thanks, shel.  And, if I may, I would interpret the two lines that Kaitlin asked about as ASL breaking from standard English grammar and being "decorative" in a visual way the same way that a painting or a dance is decorative.  Then the other about "utter dismay" I interpreted as being the dismay of the hearing oralists who have tried for centuries to  remove ASL from the deaf population.