A contemporary poem about a balance with no witness, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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There is a balance with no witness, held between the frame and the fall. One body gives; the other adjusts. The dark receives the unfinished measure. When they separate, nothing applauds. The air keeps the record.
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