A contemporary poem about the doorway’s other weather, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The doorway holds weather from elsewhere. Dust, cold metal, a smell of rain on stone. I stand inside my house and become a traveller. The room behind me calls my name. I answer without turning. A threshold is a small country with more than one border.
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