A contemporary poem about the sun leaks through her, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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She stands beneath a sun with a wound in it. Red gathers at the hem of the afternoon. Her veil is not hiding a face; it is teaching the dark how to look. When the last drop touches the ground, the shadow opens its eyes and finds her already gone.
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