Distance protects the image from possession and protects the speaker from a false intimacy.
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The image keeps its distance. I respect it badly at first. I send questions across the grass. They return as birds. By dusk, I stop calling. The distance remains, but it no longer feels empty.
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A nature & reflection poem about planet, ear, word, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
Scale becomes an unstable instrument as the speaker tries to judge a thing that will not stay still.
A nature & reflection poem about scale, tremor, material, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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