Foundations / On Fluctuation Before Meaning

What matters to me is not the formed word, but the fluctuation around its appearing.

 

There is fluctuation before a mark emerges,
while it remains,
as it fades,
and after it has disappeared.

 

When this is translated into words for human understanding, something changes.

 

It becomes more readable, more fixed, and more distant from the original fragment.

 

What I seek is not writing in the usual sense,
but the trace of something before it settles into language.

 

At times this appears as word,
at times as broken letter,
at times as shape, line, absence, or barely visible mark.