A contemporary poem about salt learns to hold light, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Her grief did not fall; it settled. Salt gathered at the lower rim of the face, brightening each time the room looked away. By evening, the tears had learned the light. She carried them without spectacle, small minerals of a weather no one could name.
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