A contemporary poem about what the quiet thing knows, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The quiet thing knows when I am pretending. It waits beside the lamp without accusation. I tell it I am fine. The window darkens. At last I sit beside it. Honesty arrives without making a sound worth recording.
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