A contemporary poem about what the crooked door knows, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The crooked door knows who pushes too hard. It knows who knocks, who leaves, who returns hungry. I lean against it with both palms. The frame holds. Not perfectly. Not forever. Enough for the room beyond to remain possible.
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