UNSEEN THINGS YET ARE

...quod nequeunt oculis 

rerum primordia cerni

accipe praeterea 

quae corpora tute necessest

confiteare esse in rebus 

nec posse videri

...since the beginnings of things 

do not appear to sight

you must also learn of bodies 

which you, even you,

confess are things, 

but which none can see

Lucretius, De rerum natura I. 268-271

such as manuscript ⍺,
       o-prime:
      the archetype

no one gets to see
the archetype

NO ONE

and yet 
its body
sublimely dispersed
brushes against your
dying  flesh
even now