A contemporary poem about the scale of one breath, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A breath can be small enough to miss and large enough to move a curtain. I measure the room by what it disturbs. The chair, the dust, the waiting glass— all answer in their own time. I breathe again. The world makes a little more space.
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