A contemporary poem about the weight of being seen, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The weight of being seen is different from the weight of being held. The figure bears both in silence. I lower my eyes, then look again. Somewhere between the two gestures, the image becomes a room.
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