An unexplained arrangement refuses collapse, and its persistence becomes a lesson in staying.
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The arrangement holds. Not beautifully. Not by design. A chair, a shadow, a little light keeping faith with the floor. I wait for the weakest part to fail. Instead, the whole strange thing makes room for me.
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A nature & reflection poem about frame, letter, looking, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A nature & reflection poem about field, light, boundary, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
The field is not withholding an answer; it simply has a life that does not require the speaker's interpretation.
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