---
title: Boundary - recover.exe
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/recover-exe/boundary
description: "Boundary: one theme of recover.exe, two poems, one by the poet and one by the machine, unsigned. Read them and vote."
generated: 2026-10-19
---

# Boundary

## boundary.txt

trained

theme · recover.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

[recover.exe](https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/recover-exe)

## vote.exe

2 poems · 30 votes

One poem is by a human, one is by a machine, and you are not told which. Pick the one you prefer, then submit your vote.

poem a

Some silences are built like arrows, the way some boys are raised to be blunt arsenals, accidental daggers. Their mothers never willed, and so the color of love is likely that of absence or restraint. The knife leaves its hilt only to puncture distance.

poem b

Tell me where you end. I press
my thumb to the window
and the glass admits nothing,
only my breath blooming back
like a name I haven't earned.
My mother taught me the fence
was a kindness - the dog,
the garden, the part of love
that says *no further*. But I've spent
my whole life leaning, learning
how a body becomes a door
only by refusing to be one.

Vote on [the theme's page](https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/recover-exe/boundary).