The Net and the Breath

Here’s collective meaning as a scaffolding that catches breath before it vanishes.

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TOPO:
If meaning disappears when we stop construing,
how do we share it?

RHEO:
We build nets.

TOPO:
Nets?

RHEO:
Symbolic structures.
Shared forms, patterns, stories—
each a lattice that can hold the shape
of a breath long after it is gone.

TOPO:
So meaning is trapped?

RHEO:
Not trapped—
suspended.
The net holds the pattern,
but the air is gone
until we breathe into it again.

TOPO:
And when we do?

RHEO:
The shape stirs,
fills,
lives once more—
and dissolves again when we stop.