The silent centre refuses ownership, and the speaker learns that proximity need not become possession.
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The centre will not be owned. I bring my hands empty. The light does not warm them. The field does not close. For once, closeness is not taking. I stand beside the unclaimed thing and let it remain itself.
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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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