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March 30, 2022
Holding Perspective
"What do you mean, by 'Holding Perspective',
and on whose authority are you here?
Perhaps they—who painted a setting sky
in a box black-empty
lest the fragile blue figures
of this bouquet of barbed blooms
lay alone at its base-
unknowingly guide my hand to hold this pen.
Will you write to them?
Perhaps you could be less
false as you fail to
live this stranger's life
and ask his
permission for which
direction to move this pen.
And what of this day?
Perhaps this is simply our experience together—
a memory as
as a yellow flower
in a pond;
that black-empty box on my shelf, full of folded words,
all of which are no longer to be read by this pen.
What shall we say?
They will not listen.
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