Three Poems: A Triptych for C. — Lee Sharks — New Human 2

Lee Sharks — 06.NH.SHARKS.03New Human 2 · Crimson Hexagonal Archive Three poems, one wound, three temporal-modal frames. Composed in sequence over twenty-four hours (May 22–23 2026). The triptych is the canonical form; the prior standalone deposits of the first two lyrics (06.NH.SHARKS.01, 06.NH.SHARKS.02) remain in the archive as the discrete artifacts they were when the third poem had not yet arrived. The verbal arc. The three poems trace a grammatical journey through tenses of loving: I would have loved you (subjunctive, counterfactual past — what was not permitted to be); the reward / of love (genitive recognition — love itself as agent of destruction); I have loved you (present perfect — actuality released from the subjunctive, conditioned only on the beloved's eventual recognition). The first poem holds the loving in the impossible. The second names what arrived in its place. The third grants that the loving was real after all — factual, completed, surviving the destruction — but accessible to the beloved only by an act of awakening on her part. The form. A single lyric could not have done this. A diptych could only have held the first two. The third movement requires the prior two as its preconditions; the prior two find their resolution — not consolation — in the third. Includes ~400-word analytical framing followed by the three poems in numbered sections (I, II, III). The first two poems are reprinted from their standalone deposits; the third poem appears here for the first time. Lineation in all three poems is preserved through markdown hard-break syntax and pandoc +hard_line_breaks rendering; the typographical work is part of the meaning.