A contemporary poem about what the object carries, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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What the object carries is not weight. It carries the hand that put it down, the room that made a place for it, the hour nobody came back. I lifted it and felt the absence move. Some burdens are made of attention.
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