Internal Variation When something changes without anything changing

Nothing opens.

Nothing enters.

Nothing leaves.

And still… something is different.

You can’t point to it.

You can’t name when it began.

But it’s there.

Everything continues—

just not in quite the same way.

Read the full poem and analysis tomorrow 19th: https://alkonda.com/2026/04/19/internal-variation/

— Al Konda