A contemporary poem about air before falling, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Air before falling is a kind of promise. The suspended thing does not know my name. Below it, the floor waits without accusation. I breathe with the distance between. For one moment, staying up feels like an honest verb.
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