The passage of time that might, for a longer narrative, stretch across its entirety, becomes, in many cases, a feature of the prose poem’s concision – and particular power.
Its isolation (from any other fragments of the imaginary ‘whole’), however, would seem to drive its attentions according to principles different to most lengthier narrative prose. As a narrative ‘unit’ it might be expected to focus on a relatively brief moment in time, a tightly framed episode. The prose poem typically presents itself in the guise of a paragraph, suggesting that readers treat it as such: a narrative fragment.
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