Artifact

 

 simply that, in its destruction
 finds its function but
 to hold   it    is what’s sufficient
  
 the electromagnetic spectrum 
 condensed, becomes
 a laden sum 
 of place and affect
  
 to you, archaeologist, all are ostraca,
  
 fragmented letters from
 a discarded accounting,
 an anonymity celebrated
 as the revelation of a voice
  
 but there is more
 in being lost, then found
 than the mundane named