A contemporary poem about the hinge below the floor, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A hinge turns below the floorboards. The house lifts one corner of itself. Dust falls upwards. I hear the street beneath the street. For a moment, every foundation admits it has another layer.
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