A contemporary poem about the scale of a door, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The door is small enough for a hand and large enough for a whole elsewhere. I touch the handle; the room grows quiet. Behind it, my life is waiting at another size. I do not enter yet. Some thresholds need the body to become ready before the key.
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