A contemporary poem about small machinery of refusal, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A screw loosened. Then another. The cupboard opened its plain mouth. No alarm, no grand collapse— only matter declining to be managed. I gathered the pieces in both hands. They felt lighter without a purpose.
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