A contemporary poem about the tool that misunderstood, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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I asked the tool to mend the morning. It tightened every loose thing except my chest. By noon, the shelves were level, the window latched, the tap obedient. I put the tool away. A life cannot be repaired by making it square.
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