A contemporary poem about sideways is still a direction, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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I used to think sideways meant lost. Then the road bent around the quarry and showed me the town from its unadvertised side. A dog slept beneath a sign for progress. I kept walking. The long way did not return me to myself. It introduced us.
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