A contemporary poem about the image makes a small demand, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The image asks only that I look twice. The first look finds a figure, a wall, a red mark. The second finds my own habit of leaving. I stay for the detail at the edge. It does not reward me. It simply stops being alone.
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