A contemporary poem about the calm arrangement, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Everything impossible is calm in this room. The wall has opened; the floor has forgotten gravity. A blue figure watches the kettle boil. No one reaches for a camera. We have become too tired for proof. The room closes at supper. The evidence remains in how we eat.
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