A surreal & fantastical poem about height, hand, horizon, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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From far away, the field behaves. At human height, every distance misfires. A hand becomes a horizon; a step becomes a question. I lower my eyes, then lift them— the world has not agreed to shrink.
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A minor physical tilt alters every relation around it, exposing the hidden agreements that made the ordinary seem stable.
A scale error turns the smallest detail into a governing world and the speaker accepts the correction without fixing it.
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