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ANOTHER EXPERIENTAL SPACE VERSE

SEPTEMBER empty swings in her heart ?? a full school bus departs Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a three line poem with a larger than usual blank space( ??)for 2nd 'line'. Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ . Thus the reader supplies his own imagination thereto.

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Date: 1/29/2025 2:01:00 AM
Departing created the emptiness!
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