A surreal & fantastical poem about edge, cup, wall, face, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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At the edge of the strange, the ordinary waits without complaint. A cup, a wall, the hour's small hinge— each has been changed by being noticed. I reach for the familiar, and it arrives with another face.
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A minor physical tilt alters every relation around it, exposing the hidden agreements that made the ordinary seem stable.
A surreal & fantastical poem about height, hand, horizon, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A scale error turns the smallest detail into a governing world and the speaker accepts the correction without fixing it.
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