An impossible presence enters ordinary domestic life and changes what the speaker considers normal.
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The impossible sits in the kitchen. It knows where the spoons are. At breakfast, it asks for nothing. I tell it about the weather. It listens with the patience of a thing that has outlived all useful questions.
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Impossible objects become almost domestic, turning strangeness into a place the speaker can inhabit.
Attention creates an opening but cannot determine what lies beyond it.
A contemporary poem about table with a temper, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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