A contemporary poem about a measure that will not hold, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A measure that will not hold makes every object newly private. The ruler bends away from the shape. The number arrives with no authority. I put the measuring down. The room grows larger at once.
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