A contemporary poem about the object keeps its secret, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object kept its secret in plain sight. I dusted it, measured it, gave it a name. Each word became another cloth laid carefully over the evidence. At night it shone without light. By morning, I had stopped asking.
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