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The Field is White

Carolyn Caines
The field is white and bare,
not a comma or dot marks the way.
A perfect acre of lawn,
prime real estate.


Here is the tract where a poem
could rest and stretch out its limbs,
where a thing could blossom
displacing the silence.

Leave room for a breath after

each plowed and planted row,

the space necessary for words

to mature from prose into poetry.


The field is white and ready

for a plucking of keys
and a planting of thought.
Here is an acre that will do.

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