A contemporary poem about the object’s second life, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object failed at its first life. It could not measure, fasten or contain. Now it sits on the mantel catching dust. A child calls it a moon. The object accepts the promotion. Some meanings arrive after usefulness has left.
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