A contemporary poem about the object in the wrong room, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object belongs in a room I have never seen. Here, it gathers dust beside the books. I carry it from shelf to shelf. Each room becomes the wrong room. At last I stop moving it. The house has been asking whether belonging is only staying.
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