A contemporary poem about a world slightly misaligned, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The pavement meets the wall at a difficult angle. People step over the seam without seeing it. I see it and lose the morning. Then a child kneels, presses one finger to the gap, and calls it a river. The world is not misaligned. It is waiting for a better name.
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