A contemporary poem about the figure practices being ordinary, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The figure in the corner practises being ordinary. It folds a towel. It checks the lock. It forgets why it came. I watch until the strangeness wears thin. Then it turns and waves. I wave back, embarrassed by how much I needed a witness.
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