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As fingers alert the keyboard, so too does the keyboard arrest the disquiet of the mind.

Poem As Surrogate

Poem as Surrogate
                    by Odin Roark

Streaming messenger
With expression unchecked
Imagined ink yet to dry
The page fearful of touch
Find the eyes
Beneath which awaits the meaning

For

This frame that lives also as picture
One's fleeting first-person impulse
A captured inner focus shared
Clings tenaciously
To the world's lenity
Every poet's temporary forever
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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