A contemporary poem about the scale gives up, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The scale gives up beneath the impossible. Numbers dissolve into small black birds. They lift from the dial and cross the ceiling. I stand there, lighter only because nothing is pretending to know my weight. When the birds return, they leave the answer blank.
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