A shape remains through repeated attempts to dismiss it, becoming a companion rather than a problem.
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I call the shape temporary. It stays through winter. I call it a shadow. It stays when the lights go out. I call it mine. It moves away. What stays is the room it made.
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A thing without a practical name resists ownership and remains open to a less instrumental way of seeing.
A contemporary poem about the way the body misreads, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
A contemporary poem about two things stay down, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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