Without a caption, the world becomes less legible but more alive to the speaker's attention.
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Remove the caption. The field loses its manners. A dark form becomes a question, then a question becomes weather. I had called this confusion. Now I call it looking before the verdict.
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The eye gathers impressions but cannot file them into a stable category, leaving the speaker with a living remainder.
An image with no practical purpose retains its charge, exposing the speaker's need to justify what moves them.
A satire & subversion poem about job description, object, scale, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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