A contemporary poem about before the first step, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Before the first step, the road is only colour. The far light refuses to promise anything. I place my foot beside the threshold, not on it, not yet. The body knows a crossing begins long before it can be called a journey.
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