A contemporary poem about a shape that refuses help, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The shape refuses help with a calm face. It will not be measured, named or improved. I place it beside the obedient things. They seem suddenly overqualified. By night, even the ruler has lost confidence. The shape remains exactly itself.
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