A contemporary poem about a figure at the wrong distance, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The figure stands too far away to be lonely. Still, the distance keeps looking back. I raise my hand; the figure raises weather. Between us, a road loses its name. I do not cross it. Some encounters change the scale without shortening the road.
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