A contemporary poem about the unneeded becomes a witness, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The unneeded thing has watched us leave. It remembers each coat, each slammed door. I carry it to the new house. It says nothing. But the first night there, the room feels less newly empty.
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