These minutes are hardly minutes.
They seem less minute
As they stretch like evening shadows,
Though they are in fact flat and thin,
and they darken my path ahead of me,
Blackening my stoop, disguising
The frightening height of it,
Marked not in steps, but in drops,
A gathering of free falls from
everything safe,
Because that's how the world is
When you are tiny.
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