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I keep it ambiguous
knowing full well
a defined reason
for feeling down
can be dismissed
heart – tom clausen
02 Sunday Jun 2024
Posted in americana, close up details, Cornell, flowers, gardens, Ithaca, nature, photos, plants, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring, tanka
tom clausen 
That’s a subtle and beautiful realization. Words can crystallize a new possibility (leaving it open-ended) and they can do the opposite and concretize and make too conclusive and cliche, flattening the discovery into something dull and meaningless.
Grateful thanks Jeff, I appreciate your reading of this tanka and feeling what you did.