A contemporary poem about the world’s loose tooth, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The world has a loose tooth. Every movement makes it wince. I speak softly to the pavement. A bus passes, carrying the pain away. For a minute, everything aligns. Then the earth grins. I keep walking with my mouth closed.
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