The observing eye cannot master a quiet centre and eventually recognises its own movement as the subject.
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The eye circles back with its little net of names. The centre stays quiet. Around it, the walls become kind. I have spent years mistaking motion for understanding. Tonight I sit still enough to be looked at.
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A thing without a practical name resists ownership and remains open to a less instrumental way of seeing.
A contemporary poem about the way the body misreads, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
A contemporary poem about two things stay down, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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