A contemporary poem about a shoulder of air, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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I leaned against the place you had left and found a shoulder made of air. It held for one breath, then altered. We borrow each other briefly: weight, warmth, the permission to fall. Afterwards, the room remembers less.
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