after Anne Boyer

The notwriting printed between words facilitates legibility. A silence to make meaning. A space to recognize a body’s boundary.

I treasure the archives of stories shared in subtle gestures of notwriting.

The energy expended in notwriting fatigues muscles and can exacerbate the underlying condition.

Notwriting strikes many as passivity, as giving up, or as self-pity.

Notwriting is neither visual, nor aural.

Notwriting labours towards its own impossible absence.