A contemporary poem about a stranger scale, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The room is too large for the grief it contains. A teaspoon rings like a bell. The curtains reach the floor of another country. I walk carefully, trying not to enlarge anything. At the far wall, grief turns its face. It is smaller than I feared and heavier than I knew.
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