"A/An" considers the court examination as poetic form, a hybrid of legal language and lyric utterance. English becomes foreign to itself, having distorted through time and slipped through the sieve of law, through the inevitable erasures of matter and the ideological erasures of the archive: the gaps marked “[illegible due to fold in paper],” and the silences that remain unmarked. In a poetics of the “[…]”, "A/An" engages with textual gaps as lacunae.