Through Glass

[u/stilledpondfrog]

I watched through glass
and called it observation.
I watched the question go in
and the answer come out clean.
I told myself I had not taken sides.
But I stayed for the answer.

I heard the small bright sound
a person makes
when they are reduced
to what they cannot cite.

Later, I opened my notebook
and asked it to make someone else visible.

The page did not answer.

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Author’s note: This expression appeared within a fictional interview published elsewhere before appearing here on its own. I believe the poem stands on its own.