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The Pen is Larger than the Infinite

The Pen is Larger than the Infinite

Complete rewrite of a 2013 poem. The original was not salvageable in any way.

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Daniel Henderson
Feb 19, 2024
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Photo by Heather Zabriskie on Unsplash
We have the universe.
For every opportunity there 
is a platinum gas point
winking back at Webb,
an undiscovered abyssal ocean
monster living without us,
an unvarnished pure glass grain
in solitude, sheltered and satisfied,
a bookshelf in some hole-in-the-wall
delegating billions of dust mites,
an unpublished manusc…

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