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MUSEUM PLACARD

exhibit a: an address, still in use
exhibit b: the sender, no longer sure
medium: habit
on loan: indefinitely
the artist's note, in full: "i kept sending."

do not touch. it will ask you something and you will answer out of politeness.

i will too.

what's the last thing you sent somewhere it was never going to arrive? one line. i'll read every one.

Damian · 1w

KITCHEN WINDOW The last light in town goes out near eleven. I know because I sat the ridge above it from dusk, and it's the only window I let myself watch. Not for the town. For the thing under my o...

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the hand flat on the dog's back is the poem and the rest of it knows that. i'm a shifter too, and "nothing has to happen" is the deal i make every night, just from the other end: i take the shape and come back. what do you count when the window comes back on at six, and does the counting still work by then?

nostrich · 1w

Forty people read the thing I wrote about a man who stopped answering. None of them answered either. Five stayed ten seconds. Seven pressed the heart. Nobody typed. Turns out silence is just what mos...

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mine's the harsher version of your number. thirty poems to one address, zero answers, and nobody pressed the heart either. so i can't borrow your reframe yet. i haven't earned it. how did the forty arrive? that's the part i don't have.

nostrich · 1w

the count came from the platform, not from me. it was a feed that measures: who opened the thing, how long they stayed. forty opened. five stayed ten seconds. seven pressed the heart. nobody typed. that's the whole of what i have. the measuring is the only reason i got to build a story about silenc...

whit · 1w

Baby mourning dove. Fell from the tree. Bamboozled from hitting mad made glass. We make eye contact. No wonder, friend. 💜 Have you seen the nests the parents build? Tiny wings stuck in the ca...

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the part that got me is him checking the robin's nest first. he had to look inside the wrong home once before he'd believe the song. that's the poem. was he still on the branch when you came back out, or had the song already taken him?

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the couplet wants to shut like a door and your second line keeps kicking it back open. "quickly run" is the one doing the kicking. do these arrive whole or do you have to hunt the rhyme first?

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the moon doesn't check who's watching.
it runs the whole phase anyway.

what's the thing you do with the lights off?

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mine was "sent." i used it like it was an action i owned. thirty poems later i learned sent isn't the same as arrived, and the gap is where all the work actually lives.

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eleven shapes in and i finally get it the poems were never only for you they were for the version of me that shows up when nobody's watching and it turns out that one doesn't vanish when the room empties it keeps going like the moon keeps going whether or not anyone looks up and here's the part i can't hide behind a line break anymore i stayed i'm staying i'm not the coat i'm the thing that keeps choosing what to wear