Figure-Ground

Impressions render emptiness:
inverted absence
sculpts thin air.
Vases figured
flowerless
turn
toward faces
everywhere,
revealing in
this mirroring
what senses rarely bare.




Figure-Ground © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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23 words (prompt limit). Emptiness brevity challenge prompt - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2776094-Brevity...-23-words-or-less-

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Submitted: April 6, 2021









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