A contemporary poem about the tilt has no cause, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The tilt has no cause I can name. The chair, the window, the sky— each keeps a separate version of straight. I choose the least convincing one. By evening, my body has learned not to trust the level.
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