A contemporary poem about the room arrives late, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The room arrives late to its own light. By then, the chairs have moved apart. A cup waits where my shadow should be. I sit down carefully. The walls make no complaint. Some places become strange only after we start to belong.
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