A surreal & fantastical poem about measurement, room, ruler, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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A small thing occupies the whole room without enlarging or apologising. I measure it twice, then lose the ruler. Somewhere the distance changes sides. What looked too little to matter has taken the measure of me.
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A minor physical tilt alters every relation around it, exposing the hidden agreements that made the ordinary seem stable.
A surreal & fantastical poem about height, hand, horizon, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A scale error turns the smallest detail into a governing world and the speaker accepts the correction without fixing it.
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