A contemporary poem about the alphabet of openings, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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An alphabet of openings writes itself slowly: one petal, one dark thread, one pause. The face is not a message to decode. It is a field where meanings loosen. I read from the edge and remain unnamed. The blank space turns out to be alive.
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