A contemporary poem about charge without purpose, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Nothing here has a proper use. The shape keeps its charge by refusing one. I reach for the old vocabulary—tool, door, body— and watch each word fall short. The useless thing remains bright. My hands have nowhere to put themselves.
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