A contemporary poem about the world without a level, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The world without a level is not falling; it is choosing. The window keeps its blue appointment. The table offers one slanted horizon. I eat standing up and call it adaptation. The sky declines the correction.
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