The eye gathers impressions but cannot file them into a stable category, leaving the speaker with a living remainder.
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The eye cannot file this. It tries under light, under body, under mistake. The folders fill with weather. I close the cabinet. Outside, the unfiled thing has begun to grow.
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Without a caption, the world becomes less legible but more alive to the speaker's attention.
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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