A contemporary poem about the shape after looking, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The shape after looking is not the shape before. My attention has warmed one side of it. A border loosens; a colour begins. I turn away to give it back. It keeps a little of my seeing.
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