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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January 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Departing created the emptiness!
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