arqios

_ underscore _

 

\"_underscore_\"

 

the line does not end

it waits — a low bar,

a held breath _ not yet

 

beneath the sentence

the underscore drags its quiet spine,

pulling the eye forward,

asking the voice to stumble.

 

not in capitals,

but in undersong —

the half‑said,

the word leaning into tomorrow.

 

today’s poems fracture,

splinter on enjambment;

but the underscore is subtler,

a stitch that binds absence

to the next insistence.

 

reader, step across it:

feel the drag of thought

beneath your own tongue —

know the poem is not finished _

only underscored.

 

 

 

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