the word that was going to complete
                    the thought about
                              completion itself
         becomes
                    this gap where meaning
                              was supposed to
                    settle
but instead
                    hovers at the edge of
                              what almost
         becomes
                    a sentence about the way
                              sentences
break apart when they approach
                    the thing they were meant to
                              say about
         breaking
                    apart
                              which is not
         this
                    but something that requires
                              the space between
                    what was intended
                              and what
         remains
                    when intention
                              encounters its own
         inability to
                    arrive at
                              the place it was
         moving toward
                    before it realized
                              that arrival
         was not
                    the point
                              but the trembling
         just before