A contemporary poem about the object waits out the house, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object waits out the house. Renovation dust, new paint, three kinds of silence. It keeps its small impossible weight. I move around it for years. Then I understand: it was not waiting for a place but for my attention.
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