A contemporary poem about the room changes its mind, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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At breakfast the room was square. By lunch it had moved one wall sideways. The table adapted first, then the light. I kept my hands flat on the surface and waited for the house to finish thinking. It did not. Neither did I.
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