A contemporary poem about the eye circles, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The eye circles what it cannot enter. Each pass makes the centre more exact. I search for a handle, a shadow, a rule. The picture gives me none of these. Still, my looking leaves a mark. The silence knows where I have been.
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