The unseen room beside a composed image becomes the place where the speaker's assumptions gather and disappear.
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There is a room beside the frame where all my reasons wait. They sit in a row, well-dressed and trembling. I open the door to let them out. The field is larger than the room. None of them know the way back.
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Impossible objects become almost domestic, turning strangeness into a place the speaker can inhabit.
Attention creates an opening but cannot determine what lies beyond it.
A contemporary poem about table with a temper, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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