A contemporary poem about the hinge at the end of weather, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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At the end of weather, the hinge remains. Rain has left; heat has not arrived. The door hangs between seasons. I stand in the gap, neither sheltered nor exposed. A pause can be a place if the body stops fleeing it.
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