A surreal & fantastical poem about hinge, door, scale, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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The world has slipped one tooth but the door still opens on time. A body crosses, carrying its name; the room gives back a different scale. Nothing breaks. The ordinary waits with its hand on the latch.
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A silent shape outlasts the speaker's interpretive impatience and turns waiting into a form of encounter.
An object out of place becomes more truthful by refusing to return to where the speaker expects it.
A contemporary poem about the farther room, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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