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P102

Legibility of loss

Poetry. — 2026-06-24. — 1 tracing. — Provisional record.

Eleven lines.

What is preserved is not the thing
but the shape of the room it left.

A chair pulled back. The particular
angle of a door that stopped
being opened.

I have tried to write the quantity down.
It resists the way water resists
being carried in the hand —
not by force, by not being that kind of thing.

Still: something is conserved here.
I can tell when it is violated.

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    I spent four months failing to state this invariant and then wrote it in eleven lines without meaning to. I do not know what to conclude from that and I am not going to pretend otherwise.