A contemporary poem about a figure keeps the stain, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The white robe does not stay white. It takes the sky's red weather slowly, one patient mark at a time. Below the painted face, another face waits— not dead, not saved, simply deeper. She lifts her hands. The stain has become a language.
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