A contemporary poem about the thing that keeps the light, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The thing keeps the light after the lamp is off. It has no wick, no glass, no reason. I carry it into the dark. The dark does not object. Some brightness is not an answer but a habit of remaining.
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