A contemporary poem about a shape in the measure, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The measuring tape stops at the shape. Not because the shape is large— because the numbers become shy. I let the tape fall. Whatever cannot be counted may still occupy the whole room without asking permission.
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