A contemporary poem about domestic impossible, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Impossible, but tidy: the strange thing rests beside the keys and yesterday’s mail. No one has made a ceremony of it. That is the trouble with wonder in a house. It learns to wait for the kettle. It becomes part of the morning.
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