A contemporary poem about the object before its purpose, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Before its purpose, the object was only matter: a cool edge, a patient surface, a shape with no obligation to help. I touched it before the world arrived. For one second, my hands were free of every useful answer.
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