A contemporary poem about the picture has no use for me, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The picture has no use for me. It does not need a witness, caption or verdict. I stand before it anyway. A red line crosses the dark and continues through my chest. I leave without taking anything. The image keeps the part that changed.
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A contemporary poem about a use for the unusable, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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