A contemporary poem about the house turns one degree, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The house turns one degree while I sleep. The bed remains; the window disagrees. I wake with the floor under a different promise. By breakfast, the walls have settled. Only my name keeps sliding towards the room next door.
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