the word that was
                    becomes the word that

                              isn't


scattered across what might have been
                    meaning

                              if it had held


              but it doesn't
                              hold

                    it disperses into


the spaces between
                              intention and

                    the thing that breaks
                              before it


                    reaches


                              what it was reaching for


fragments of almost-sentences
                    collect in the margins

                              where completion
                    goes to

                              not happen


                    leaving only the shape
                              of what was

                    interrupted