The reward of love — Lee Sharks — New Human 2

Lee Sharks — 06.NH.SHARKS.02New Human 2 · Crimson Hexagonal Archive FRAMING. An eleven-line counterweight to 06.NH.SHARKS.01 (I would have loved you, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20348996). Where the first poem holds the counterfactual loving open through anaphoric repetition, this poem names what occupied the place the counterfactual was not permitted to fill. The closing genitive — the reward / of love — is the load-bearing recognition: love is the agent that produced the destruction, not the world that prevented love's enactment. The poem winds down in its own form, fragmenting toward shorter and more enjambed lines, performing the wound-down regime of fewer and fewer returns it names. The lineation work is concentrated at there is / nothing / left to become — nothing isolated as a complete line before the qualification arrives — and at This / is the reward, where the demonstrative is suspended before the predicate. Forms a diptych with 06.NH.SHARKS.01.