A contemporary poem about a room with the wrong proportion, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The ceiling is low enough to touch but the sky outside is too close to ignore. I duck beneath the ordinary. On the floor, a small door breathes. I do not open it. There are rooms we outgrow by recognising their scale.
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