A contemporary poem about an appliance for wonder, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object hums when no one is listening. Its only function is to make the ordinary hesitate. I switch it off. The fridge continues; the light continues. But wonder has entered the wiring. It blinks once from behind the wall.
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