Scale becomes an unstable instrument as the speaker tries to judge a thing that will not stay still.
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I measure the distance twice. The distance changes while I look. A hand becomes a horizon, a horizon folds into the hand. Nothing is wrong with the ruler. It is the world that has stopped agreeing to be small.
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A nature & reflection poem about planet, ear, word, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A nature & reflection poem about scale, tremor, material, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
The quiet centre is not vacant; it exerts a gravity that draws the speaker away from borrowed certainty.
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