Answer:
These lines represent the speaker's difficulty in speaking some consonants. It is as if the consonants are gone from your vocabulary.
Explanation:
The poem "Etiquette" written by Hayes Davis features a speaker who stutters and very much wants him to be able to speak normally and without any difficulty as an adult.
The speaker shows how funny his cousins find him when he can't pronounce a word, because speaking is so easy, but sometimes it seems that the consonants disappear from the author's vocabulary, making the pronunciation very difficult. For this, the speaker reveals "my consonants fly away/ sometimes, like birds when it gets too cold"
