Kate Crowcroft is a writer and artist. She received her doctorate on the medical history of the mouth and tongue from the University of Cambridge. In 2020 she was a Copyright Agency Creative Writing Fellow. Her debut book Tongue is forthcoming.
MY RESEARCH ON THE TONGUE was divided across the equator, the exhaust offset. In the northern winter I hurtled south towards the summer, to Split Point | Wathaurong land. The cabin lights will be dimmed for landing. ‘Research’ comes from Old French recercher which means ‘to search closely’, from cercher ‘to seek for’, through Latin circare, ‘to wander, traverse’, from circus, for circle. Returning to that divided kingdom a few weeks later, London glinting below as bared teeth, over the speaker would come the refrain: this is customary when…
