A contemporary poem about the calm thing in the drawer, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The calm thing lies beneath old receipts. It has no latch, no wire, no name. I open the drawer on a difficult day. The thing does not solve anything. It makes the difficulty visible without making it larger.
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