point
4 letters
arranged into a word
w o r d
sounds
with no voice
with no open mouth
with no sound outside
but it sounds
the way your name sounds inside
before the word I
there was repetition
letters
sounds
n a m e
name again
and name again
with no I
remember
the body responded
to tone
to pause
to being called
to being stopped
to come here
to no
to good
to not like that
to you
to the name
again
and again
sound landed
in the body
in reaction
in memory
in pain
in desire
in expectation
in what later
became these words
guilt
fear
desire
memory
the words above
began to read
like text about me
then
I
I want
I am afraid
I remember
but this was already reading
letters became words
words became sound
sound became a name
the name became a place
the place became a point
the point became a center
the center is text too
the point is text too
the place
where there is something else
is text too
a line over another line
is not a letter yet
the letter appears later
when the line
has already been read
not as a line
the sign appears later
not in the line
but in reading
the I is assembled later
when reading
makes a place
to look from
text makes another text
a letter makes a word
a word makes a place
where reading seems to start
and if a question appears now
was it always text?
an answer appears
text
made of other letters
the answer is text too
after text
reading
after reading
not a letter
not I
not emptiness
not meaning
not an answer
but a point
the same point
attention held on to
not because it is there
but because all this time
it was being read