A contemporary poem about the hour that refuses its place, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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One hour refuses every clock. It sits between lunch and regret, wearing the smell of dust after rain. I try to schedule it. The hour laughs without sound. By night, I have lived it and cannot put it back.
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