Tag: vision
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Sightlines
Sightlines” emerged from a moment of ritual clarity—when my aging eyes, no longer tasked with precision, began to see through blur into beauty. The poem honors the body’s quiet adaptations and the mind’s compensatory grace. It’s a minimalist elegy for vision, a philosophical gesture toward perception as ritual. I wanted to write something that doesn’t…
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What Will Not Survive
Sharp as an edge that does not ask what it is cutting. whole as a thing that does not need proof to exist,thought arrives in full motion before meaning—color before shape, light before weight,not as process, not as method,but truth already formed, unwilling to be held,which needs no tending, refining, It is not a single…
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Passing Through
Passing ThroughThe city recedes, and in the dim hush of the bookshop, she stands— a shadow among shelves, folded inward, something bent in her shoulders, a shape recognized but unacknowledged. Once, she had said nothing but told everything— the stagger in her step, the new weight in her limbs, the way she lingered at the…