Impossible objects become almost domestic, turning strangeness into a place the speaker can inhabit.
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Put the impossible here, next to the chipped blue cup. Let it cool beside the window. Let nobody explain its shape. By dusk, the room has learned that wonder is not a guest. It pays its share of the rent.
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Attention creates an opening but cannot determine what lies beyond it.
A contemporary poem about table with a temper, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
A contemporary poem about the room won’t sit still, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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