# The Structure of Disintegration

*What disintegrates is not lost.
Each fragment becomes pattern,
each pattern becomes stratum,
each stratum becomes structure.

Only the threshold remains,
not as identity,
but as a condition of existence.

The image is not produced.
It is negotiated.*

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