without harmony

the position

of many publishers

 

has never been

clearer

 

about aesthetics

and how evidence

 

might best appear

 

when written words

picture homelessness

on the footpath

under

ragged coverlets

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as an experience

crying out for help

 

yet only acceptable

if poetically precise

 

and not distracted by the beauty

of the adjacent landscape

 

within a walking distance

that removes the bleakness.