A contemporary poem about the figure at the edge, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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At the edge, the figure has been cropped by weather. Only one sleeve remains, and the hint of a turn. I could complete the body if I wanted. Instead, I leave the absence honest. There are people we meet first as the shape they make leaving.
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A contemporary poem about a use for the unusable, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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