An explanation fails at the edge of an experience, leaving the speaker with a more honest and less complete language.
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The explanation falls short by the width of a hand. I place my hand there. Beyond it, the shape continues without my permission. This is not mystery. It is simply more than I brought.
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A calm impossible arrangement becomes a quiet pressure that alters the speaker's habits of attention.
A field refuses the observer's demand for a clean explanation, leaving attention to do its own work.
A surreal & fantastical poem about figure, object, light, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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