Old Shoes Overseen
They carry thousands of sightings
after Van Gogh’s, with a hulking file of commentaries
or we would not be here, re-viewing them.
How much of this we see barely matters
as we always miss most of an object’s infinite context
this time we watch long enough
for it to take us where it lives without us.
A vaguely familiar movement
detachment, absorption, relinquishing
brushes us aside as nearly irrelevant
deeply satisfying
for the ordinary mind’s silent double.
The Dog Star 
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