Quiet is not absence but a measurable presence that changes according to distance, attention and care.
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The quiet has a scale. Close by, it is a pulse. Far away, it becomes weather. I step back and lose the detail. I step forward and lose the whole. Between the two, attention learns its size.
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A distant figure remains self-contained, carrying an atmosphere the observer cannot own or interpret.
A contemporary poem about after the colour breaks, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
A nature & reflection poem about looking, rooms, eyes, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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