A contemporary poem about almost domestic, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Almost domestic, the impossible waits between the fruit bowl and the light switch. I wipe the counter around it. It does not become ordinary. The gesture only proves how far ordinary can be asked to stretch.
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