A contemporary poem about an answer out of frame, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The answer is not in the picture. I searched the corners, the bright break, the absent face. Nothing but a small domestic distance. Still, the question came home with me. It slept beneath my tongue. In the morning, I knew how to ask it better.
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