A contemporary poem about the image after its meaning, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The image outlives its meaning. Long after the symbol has gone to sleep, the colours keep their appointments. I sit with the leftover light. It says no message. It does not need to. A thing can remain strange without being solved.
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