A contemporary poem about the strangeness of staying, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Leaving would make the picture easier. The room would return to its proper size. Instead, I stay beside the impossible chair. Dust settles on my shoes. The chair does not move. Some strangeness is only the world asking whether we will remain.
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