A contemporary poem about the door leans into elsewhere, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The door leans into elsewhere. Its hinges complain in two languages. I open it halfway and hear rain falling on a street I have never walked. The house holds me back. The distance does not.
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