We’re not sure whether gematria or ʿilm al-ḥurūf (the knowledge of letters) comes trailing from geōmetriā (geometry) or grammateia (knowledge of writing). But the question here isn’t origin. It’s impact: the hit, the beat, the pulse inside letters.
From the word bahr-l-ghurba: what do bā’, ghayn, ḥā’ (ح) keep, sealed as secrets? What does their electrical body give off, if anything gives itself off at all? What is a word when it’s granulated, broken into grains, clicks, edges, then sequenced under Euclidean laws?
This piece listens for the mathematics in language, and for the language inside mathematics: a pronunciation as a diagram, a letter as a circuit, a word as a coastline you can’t finish tracing.