A contemporary poem about the furniture of wonder, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The furniture of wonder is plain: a chair, a shelf, a patch of unclaimed light. The extraordinary sits among them without asking to be admired. I have mistaken spectacle for attention. The room corrects me by staying still.
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