Can you tell the state of a poem’s heart by physical observation? What is revealed? Is less salt required? Increased exercise? Too languid? Need for the long walk and the stretch of muscle.
Remember, a meal that looked inviting. Perhaps, smelled so too, but in the taste bland. Disappointed. Needed a wallop of the savory. Of color.
if we were
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then to the outer neighborhoods
travel with purpose
something gray about the edges
and the frozen over water
dangerous perhaps
but no doubt the avalanche
of stars
and winsome offstage music
has much to do with staying
resolved
until the end of morning