A contemporary poem about the hinge misses by one tooth, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The world slips one tooth on its hinge. Nothing falls; the lamp keeps its appointment. Only the doorway looks elsewhere. I step through and arrive beside myself, older by the length of a breath. The hinge apologises in a language the house has always understood.
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