_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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Reviews

[Lorry]

What an excellent perspective to see the underscore as a way to say to be continued, without saying to be continued.
This must be the grownups version of not yet finished because every time I see or hear the words to be continued I think of Saturday matinees, that always stopped at the good bit before the dreaded words to be continued came up on screen, leading to an audience full of groans... but at least we all got over it when the cartoons started! 😀
I also like the idea of the underscore being a row of neat stitches that binds absence to the next existence.
Very cleverly done.

[redd Brick Keshner]

Same time, same channel. Some programs are nightly instalments while others are weekly! Many of them in B&W as well. Thanks, Lorry🙏🏻🕊️