The Poetry Project

VIOLA TRICOLOR

Chuck Stebelton

for Brenda Iijima
5/19 - 5/31/2022

We are together because our attention is edgy in / SILENCE

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EARLY MEADOW RUE

audience

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EMPTINESS

the contrary of repetition

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EMPHASIS

the corollary of repetition

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EMPTINESS

the corollary of repetition

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EMPHASIS

the contrary of repetition

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WOOD THRUSH
MOURNING WARBLER

SPRING FLORA

VIOLA SORORIA

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Immensities of scale

Long or short grain
in four line attenuation

which is the trouble
with holding perfection.

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“Nano level

Emptiness
is a phase.”

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Emptied of meaning,
a mnemonic for violet

violetxxxxqualifier

qualifiedxxxxviolet

Work from GIVINGHEED / TO / HEEDSGIVING: Dis/Course with Sara Jane Stoner

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