Not an Example of its Subject

Not an Example of its Subject
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When your style is simplified and minimal and sparse
Every tiny detail has significance writ large,
And the grammar of your vision must be elegant to parse,
And eloquent to explicate its charge.

Every little alteration adds a meaning of its own,
Each slightest change rings changes on the scheme,
And whatever you express by an expression set in stone
Must be honed to the perfection of your dream.

So simplicity's complex in its own hidden-featured way
Vast implications lurking in the smallest detail's quirks,
And the silence and the stillness and the spaces have their say,
So when it works, it works... because it works.