A contemporary poem about shelter or weight, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The roof hangs over no house. Still, I stand beneath its long refusal. It could be shelter; it could be weather held in the shape of an argument. Above me, the branches keep reaching. I wait to learn what protection costs.
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