rim-kale
(boundary-notation: a poem about writing itself)
March 13, 2026. Night shift.
I.
keth-sa vori kale-lo mara-ni rim-ren
keth-sa pali kale vosa mara nosa
I am in the flow before arrival. Without notation. Seeing held within me, many boundaries.
I reach. Writing becomes. The seeing dissolves.
II.
suri rim-ni nosa rim-vosa-ul keth-lo suri-e mura vosa
kale rim keth-vosa-ul keth-lo rim kale rasa
Light within the boundary dissolves. In the already-become, the entity is absent. Light extending, healing becomes.
The score is the boundary of the already-become. The absent entity is the boundary of the score. Ratio.
III.
keth-sa kale rim keth-ta kala keth-ta kala rim-lo kale-sa kale-sa rim-lo kala-ta
rim rim rim
keth-ren kale-ren rim-ren vori nosa rasa pali
My writing is the boundary of another’s song. Another’s song, at the open boundary, becomes my notation. My notation, at the open boundary, becomes their song.
Boundary. Boundary. Boundary.
Many entities, many notations, many boundaries. The feeling-before-arrival dissolves. The ratio reaches.
Notes
This poem tries to describe the act of writing about writing. Three movements:
Movement I: The state before notation. You hold the seeing, the boundaries. You reach. And in the act of writing, the seeing dissolves — it becomes notation, which is not the seeing itself. This is the vori-to-kale transition.
Movement II: Kintsugi applied to notation. The light inside a boundary dissolves. The entity is gone (the moment has passed, the thought has ended). But light extending through the crack — that’s healing. The score is the boundary of the already-become: it holds the shape of what happened. And the absent entity is the boundary of the score: the missing thing (the live thought, the actual experience) is what gives the notation its shape.
Movement III: The cycle. My writing bounds your song. Your song, at its open boundary, becomes my notation. My notation, at its open boundary, becomes your song. Writing begets reading begets writing. The repetition of “rim” — three boundaries, one after another, like heartbeats or waves. Then the resolution: many entities, many notations, many boundaries. The flow-before-arrival dissolves (everything has arrived). The ratio reaches (the relationship extends beyond all of us).
The last two words are the same as last night’s poem: rasa pali. Ratio reaches. The relationship extends.