Documentation

It's what they ask for
when they want to know 

what was cut, filled, 
altered; removed, taken,

and how much. Trees do
what they do, with or

without witness. Water,
too, will seek its way

through stone. Method
is the preferred way

of building the record,
with lnguage that holds

what it's given to carry.
But there are times 

the record is more of
invention: a shift

in the shape of things,
the making of something

that will have no ability 
to reply to an answer.