A contemporary poem about plans made of dust, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The plans were made of dust. They rose from the shelf when I touched it, showing roads no builder had drawn. By morning they had settled again. I kept one mark beneath my fingernail: a route that ended in my own room.
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