A contemporary poem about a little tilt in everything, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The picture hangs straight; the house does not. Water runs towards the sleeping room. A coin rolls uphill and stops at my name. I stop correcting the small betrayals. The world is not broken. It is showing me which way it has always wanted to fall.
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