A contemporary poem about the world’s small misalignment, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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A crack runs through the morning. The kettle still boils; the bus still comes. Only the horizon sits a little left. I follow its error across the day. At night, my body has learned a direction the map omitted.
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