A contemporary poem about an object learns my hands, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object learns my hands before I learn it. It finds the drawer, the pocket, the edge of the desk. I stop naming its purpose. A thing may become intimate by refusing to be explained.
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