A contemporary poem about an object with a private map, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object carried a private map under its lacquer, beneath the name. I could not read it, but I watched its corners turn towards the sea. Some directions are not instructions. Some are only a way of continuing.
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