A contemporary poem about holding pattern for the living, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The brakes remember an impact I cannot place. Every red light becomes a room with no exit. I sit until the silence has spent its threat. Then a headlight appears behind me. Not rescue. Not judgment. Just someone else waiting for the world to move.
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