A contemporary poem about the thing decides, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The thing decides without announcing it. It leaves the shelf, crosses the room, and settles beside the sleeping door. I ask what it wants; the house stays still. By morning, every object faces east. No one admits to having moved them.
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