A contemporary poem about a chair with an exit strategy, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The chair kept one leg near the wall and sent the others into the hall. It was not broken. It was considering how a body might leave without standing. I sat down carefully. The house began to make space.
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