A contemporary poem about the grammar of contact, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A hand finds the air beside another hand. The sentence is incomplete but legible. They do not touch; they revise the distance. Closeness has its own syntax, its pauses, its weight on the page. I read it slowly, afraid to interrupt.
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