ABOUT THE POEM: This poem records a human encounter reduced to structural fact. It rejects consolation, nostalgia, and emotional surplus, treating loss as a completed system process. Absence is not romanticized but measured. Meaning is not recovered or borrowed. What remains is architecture: intact, cold, and final.Where We Once Met
Intersection logged and deleted-
coordinates touched once,
now unregistered.
No fragrance scheduled for release-
no bud, no breeze,
no garden persists.
The promise evaporates-unheard.
Loyalty, unsubscribed.
Residue, uncompressed.
Even memory of meeting
will dissolve without trace-
absolute cold confirmed.
Walk on, vanished site-
the architecture holds
long after the garden is forgotten.
Presence leaves no olfactory trace-
contrary to memory’s claim.
Absence has no generative capacity-
contrary to grief’s assumption:
remaining sludge.
This intersection completes its silent task-
offering nothing to systems that reject consolation.
No favour was accepted,
no right was received,
no transaction was ever completed.
