A contemporary poem about the object chooses the weather, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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By noon the kettle had chosen rain. It leaned towards the window, not to escape, but to listen. I filled it with water; it returned weather. Somewhere, the house loosened its rules. I stood beneath the ordinary and got wet.
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