A contemporary poem about when the quiet tilts, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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When the quiet tilts, we call it weather or fatigue. We straighten the picture and leave. By night, the whole house is leaning into a future no one selected. I sleep on the lower side.
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