A contemporary poem about a useless image holds, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The image holds no instruction. It leans against the wall, refusing a job. I ask it to explain the room. It gives me a shadow and a little blue dust. That is not nothing. It is the beginning of looking without needing to arrive.
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