A contemporary poem about a scale for unnamed things, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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I weigh the image against a loaf of bread. The bread wins, briefly, by being useful. Then the picture leans into the morning and makes the scale forget its numbers. Some things are not measured by weight. They alter the hand that measures.
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