A contemporary poem about the quiet arrangement, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Someone has arranged the impossible by the window. A stone floats above a folded shirt. The shirt does not seem impressed. I move neither object. By dusk, the stone has lowered itself to the height of a promise and the shirt has begun to breathe.
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