A contemporary poem about the street bends first, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The street bends before I reach the corner. Houses keep their addresses, but not their angles. I follow the bend into a quiet market. A woman sells maps with the roads erased. I buy one. At home, it folds itself towards wherever I am going.
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