Letters Declaring Their Identities Poem by Terence George Craddock

letters declaring
their identities
at sharp edges

letters declaring their identities at smooth edges
letters declaring their identities at rough edges
letters declaring their identities at blurred edges
in daylight sunlight shining bright
become a little less clear on cloudy days
become washed out in heavy rain on rainy days
become murky at dawn dusk on overcast days

what is clear by daylight
might be invisible at night

an overcast night without moon or star light
letters sinking into the mud in mud identities
become invisible mere source potential mud
back past primeval ancient origin identities

who raises up drawn pictographs Sanskrit
in first meaning dawn waking identities?


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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