A contemporary poem about the colour of an unasked question, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The question has a colour I cannot name. It appears on the wall whenever I avoid it. I hang a calendar over the mark. The dates peel away first. By winter, the whole wall is speaking in the quiet grammar of a stain.
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