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Les Imagistes (Other) by Nicholas Jones
We would call this peaceful and
it is quiet compared to the noise
of the urban morning and
the tapping of the office workers.
But still there are birds and human footsteps
and background hiss of traffic
like scratches on an old seven inch.
The imagists were wrong, I think, you see
Imagism is creating coherence
by having an idea
and purging all that does not fit.
I argue instead
for contradiction through mass inclusion
encompass all we can
and some of it will work:
a poetics like a duck on a frozen lake
confused that he can walk on water.
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