I would have loved you — Lee Sharks — New Human 2
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Lee Sharks — 06.NH.SHARKS.01New Human 2 · Crimson Hexagonal Archive FRAMING. A six-line counterfactual love poem. The two declarative lines of the opening — for the rest of my time / I would have never left — establish what was not permitted to be. The repetition I would have loved you opens the second movement, but the sentence does not complete the way it did the first time: the suspended pair for the rest of the time leaves the meaning of time open across the line break, and I have left resolves it under a second sense of the word — not the leaving that did not happen, but the time that remains. Same word. Two meanings. One grief. The poem's structure is the cost of holding both at once. Opens the Sharks arm of New Human 2 (06.NH.SHARKS.XX). v1.1 (this version): corrected lineation rendering. v1.0 markdown lacked hard-break markers and collapsed the six lines into a single paragraph in some viewers. v1.1 uses markdown soft-break syntax (two trailing spaces) and the PDF is regenerated with explicit hard-line-break preservation. The poem text is unchanged from v1.0.
Author: Sharks, Lee
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7162114938