Posts Tagged ‘fleeting encounters’

“Before Form: Part One”

November 17, 2025

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Landscape I: Before Form
16″ x 24″
Oil on linen
2000

Ricardo F. Morín

November 17, 2025

Oakland Park, Fl

1

Some encounters begin before language is ready for them.

Two minds meet without settling.

Nothing takes shape, yet something unmistakable occurs.

The truest account is the refusal to explain.

2

Certain ideas resist inheritance.

Two ways of seeing collide briefly, then separate.

Meaning leans forward; form steps back.

The moment matters without offering a reason.

3

Some connections pass like weather fronts.

They do not teach; they alter the air.

Nothing holds still.

Memory keeps only a shift in the light.

4

Some experiences never fully arrive.

A brush, not a presence.

A pulse without source.

What remains is the recollection of almost remembering.

5

There is a threshold just before silence.

Perception moves, finds no edge.

The air changes, just barely.

A faint trace lingers, directionless and unnamed.

6

There is a stillness that gathers rather than empties.

It reveals nothing yet asserts itself.

A held breath before form begins.

Being, unclaimed by identity.

7

Tenderness sometimes appears without announcing itself.

A nearness so slight it restores by existing.

A small warmth rekindles what had dimmed.

Then loosens, but never truly leaves.

8

Some forces do not arrive; they simply are.

They seek no interpretation.

Existence affirms itself without intent.

A brief spark of the world recognizing its own pulse.

9

Energy releases its need to be something.

It does not vanish; it unravels.

Nothing returns, because nothing was apart.

Dissolution restores possibility.


Coda

The cycle erases its own footprint.

Everything returns to its opening field.

No conclusion remains—only quiet.

And if anything rises again,

it will come without memory of having been.