A contemporary poem about the puppet learns the floor, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The puppet learns the floor by falling. No hand arrives to give the gesture meaning. Its wooden mouth stays open to the dust. I call it abandoned, then stop. A body without instructions may still be practising its own weight.
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