A contemporary poem about a doorway in the measure, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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There is a doorway in the measuring tape. I find it between nine and ten centimetres. Through it, a field waits under night. I pull the tape closed. The field remains in my hand as a warmth the numbers cannot account for.
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