A surreal & fantastical poem about object, waiting, seat, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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The object waits without becoming a sign. It has no appointment with my meaning. Around it, the field practises patience. I stand there long enough to feel my own interpretation take a seat and wait.
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Impossible objects become almost domestic, turning strangeness into a place the speaker can inhabit.
Attention creates an opening but cannot determine what lies beyond it.
A contemporary poem about table with a temper, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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