A contemporary poem about a visitor with no shadow, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The visitor has no shadow. It sits politely beneath the ceiling fan. I offer tea; it declines by becoming smaller. At the door, it turns back. I realise I have been hosting the part of myself that never learned to arrive.
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