A contemporary poem about the bent map, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The map bends around one unmarked place. Every road points towards it, then loses nerve. I fold the paper along the crease. The blank becomes a shelter. I sleep there for an hour. When I wake, the map is flat and the place is under my hand.
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