Ordinary words drift in the dark. Touch one and it blooms open to the picture hiding
in its history — muscle was a little mouse, clue a ball of thread, pupil the little doll
of yourself in someone's eye, window a wind-eye, vellum the calf. A line draws itself; the
origin surfaces underneath.
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A surface that keeps the mark after the hand is gone. Move and a glowing nib writes;
the bright stroke fades but a faint permanent trace stays burned underneath. Leave it, and
after a while the page keeps writing on its own. The literal name, and the gallery's thesis.
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A Canadian apology that decided to act. It bows and apologizes on a loop. Click and it
straightens up, says "does agere," then immediately apologizes for acting. A tally counts
apologies against acts — the apologies always win.
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