A contemporary poem about the space we make, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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We make a space by standing close, a narrow country neither body owns. Your shoulder holds one border; my breath keeps the other open. Nothing in us becomes certain. Still, the space begins to feel inhabited.
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