A contemporary poem about the unused image, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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I kept the picture for an emergency. Years passed; no emergency looked like it. Now the colours have faded into a kind of permission. A chair, a window, a hand near the edge— nothing asking to be useful. I put it back in the drawer and feel the drawer grow larger.
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