A contemporary poem about instructions to float, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Instructions to float are brief: do not seek the floor, do not ask why. Keep the body loose around its fear. Let the horizon pass underneath. I follow the first rule badly. The second one follows me home.
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