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This "Gone" fragment leaves only the window wind, a denied willow touch, and the paper's movement as the residue of disappearance.

The page feels like an echo from the fuller "Gone" poems, stripped down until touch and motion are almost all that remain. By denying the willow image, it rejects natural consolation and keeps the scene inside a harder, barer room. The fragment works like a leftover breath, holding onto one image because the rest has already dropped away.

A two-line 'Gone' fragment pares the poem to its residue: 'The window wind is not a willow touch / that blows the paper'. By denying the willow it refuses natural consolation, keeping only touch and motion as the leftover breath of an image the fuller 'Gone' pages had already let drop away.