Authoritative identifier:AXN:0285.UNCLASSIFIED.♍♍🍁▽🎨⛳ — established 2026-06-20 in the batch assignment that followed the 2026-06-19 deletion; the mint input was not retained, so the derivation cannot be re-checked; byte identity is carried by the served bytes' SHA-256 and SWHID; resolves at /s/axn/0285/. Cite this record by AXN and URL.
This record preserves the complete textual manifestation of Lee Sharks’s five-line lyric if your heart should ever slowly turn. The poem imagines a beloved awakening slowly and astonished into a renewed world. Its final declaration—“then know / that I have loved you”—places love outside possession or response: the beloved’s future recognition is enough to carry the speaker’s past and continuing regard.
The text is the accessible and searchable counterpart to the image manifestation in #733. Punctuation and lineation are load-bearing, particularly the double-dash interruptions around “slowly, astonished,” the unfolding image of leaves unbundling from rain, and the isolated movement into “then know.” The authority description should preserve the poem’s lowercase title and avoid converting the lyric into biographical evidence about any named relationship.
The encyclopedic entry for this work is on its identifier page: /s/axn/0285/
Full Text
if your heart should ever--slowly, astonished--turn
from sheltering slumber, leaves unbundling
from turned-away rain, and find the world made new:
then know
that I have loved you.
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2026-07-31 — body_status: Body classified by reading its own opening declaration rather than by counting words. Word counting misread works in Greek, emoji, and natively short forms as stubs.
2026-08-01 — journal: Wave 6 venue normalization: full canonical journal name per MANUS ruling 2026-08-01 (venues.json authority)
2026-08-04 — publisher: PUB-POPULATE: dc:publisher from venues.json v1.1 press mapping (CP-R3 RULED-EXTENDED 2026-08-01); Alexanarch = publisher of record where no imprint applies
2026-08-04 — status: W12 STATUS-VOCABULARY v1.0 (MANUS ratified 2026-08-04): controlled vocabulary {ACTIVE, SUPERSEDED, WITHDRAWN, DRAFT}; MINTED_UNREVIEWED false on a 100%-audited corpus; freetext annotations preserved losslessly in body_status.status_note
2026-08-05 — description: DW-??? intake (LABOR-prepared, TACHYON-verified: AXN match + factual probes vs record body)
2026-10-27 — axn: AXN re-derived from the canonical text (batch)
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