A contemporary poem about the room is almost ordinary, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The room is almost ordinary. That almost does all the damage. A lamp burns, a door is shut, and something impossible occupies the middle. I live beside it for a week. Then I notice I have begun to lean.
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