A contemporary poem about silk keeps the cut, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Silk keeps the cut after the blade is gone. It remembers the hand, not the wound. I wore your softness like a warning, then called the warning beautiful. Now the red has left the room. The fabric still knows where I am.
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