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Versisognanti

The Forgotten Logic of the Typographical Error

It is not merely oversight, nor foot that stumbles,
but the subtle echo of meaning that prints
a changed line, a letter misplaced elsewhere,
like a seed of intent moving in a crevice.
It has its own beat, a hidden breath,
this imperfect flaw escaping the dictate.

Perhaps it is another story knocking at the border,
an oblique thought that knows no end anymore,
that finds space and dwelling in the nest of bits,
another song that time colors.
It is the trace of a verb never reached the light,
that in such modest fault brings forth its being.

And there, where the sign becomes a deviated path,
a logic hides, fragile and innate.
An architecture only those who understand
the alphabet of dreams, within the dark, comprehend.
A whisper of chaos that breaks the order,
and carries with it an arcane beauty.

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