Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.
It would be additional spacing, usually.
From what I see, the \n’s got clipped in the post text which seems to exaggerate the zero-length characters as wider spaces.
I posted the decoder in another comment.
I’m looking at it again with Thunder and I’m seeing some extra wide spaces in some spots. So, that’s something.