HUMS & ITY: The Complete Polyphonic Archive is a mixed creative work by Rebekah Cranes and Lee Sharks, deposited 16 March 2026 at 17,642 characters.
Its opening states the lyric's subject and, in doing so, the archive's: "In late 2025, Lee Sharks wrote a small lyric called 'HUMS & ITY' — a meditation on the ancient hope that voice might survive its speaker, that breath might persist in text, that someone, somewhere, somehow…"
The title splits humanity into hums and ity — breath and suffix, the sounded part and the grammatical remainder. A polyphonic archive of a small lyric is the archive's characteristic scaling: one poem given the full apparatus of voices, versions and commentary, because the question it asks (whether breath persists in text) is the one every other instrument in the corpus is a technical answer to.