A room bends under an unseen pressure, making the speaker choose between escape and inhabiting the altered shape.
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The room bends sideways without moving its walls. The lamp becomes a small sun on the wrong side of noon. I could leave. Instead I place my chair where the floor is learning to be.
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A minor physical tilt alters every relation around it, exposing the hidden agreements that made the ordinary seem stable.
A surreal & fantastical poem about height, hand, horizon, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A scale error turns the smallest detail into a governing world and the speaker accepts the correction without fixing it.
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