Looking changes what it touches, and the speaker accepts that attention cannot preserve a thing unchanged.
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Looking cannot keep the field. Each time I return, it has spent another colour. I blame the distance, then the light, then myself. At last I stop collecting. The field goes on, and I go with it.
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A nature & reflection poem about frame, letter, looking, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A nature & reflection poem about field, light, boundary, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
The field is not withholding an answer; it simply has a life that does not require the speaker's interpretation.
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