An unlabelled form interrupts an ordinary day and makes the speaker question who was expected to arrive.
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A shape has arrived without an appointment. The room clears its throat around it. I ask what it wants. It offers the patience of a stone, then takes my chair. By evening I have learned that waiting can be a form of entry.
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A silent shape outlasts the speaker's interpretive impatience and turns waiting into a form of encounter.
An object out of place becomes more truthful by refusing to return to where the speaker expects it.
A contemporary poem about the farther room, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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