A contemporary poem about the figure keeps its quiet, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The figure at the edge of the picture is not waiting. Waiting would give the dark too much authority. It has brought a cup, a coat, a reason not to leave. I stand beside it and say nothing. The silence shifts its weight. Two bodies make a doorway.
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