A contemporary poem about a door that opens into scale, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The door opens into a room the size of a thought. A cup stands there, large enough to contain weather. I step closer and become smaller. This should frighten me. Instead, the room makes space for one unimportant body to keep looking.
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