A contemporary poem about a measure of the unfamiliar, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The unfamiliar begins at the kitchen door. It wears my old coat and knows the light switch. I ask its name. It points to the scale above the stove. The needle trembles between us. Neither of us is small anymore.
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