Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Window Seat

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Sitting tucked in the alcove,
back touching the smooth cool frame,
thighs like kidney beans
facing each other at the curve,
ankles crossed loosely—
freedom in a pose.

Long lost gaze into the blurry night
as a million silver darts
hit concrete,
bouncing off,
splattering the ground in wet sparks
like abandoned thoughts.

Just beyond the cold glass…
storming
in grey blue black,
thunder like the hammer of old gods.

Tracing my finger along the grid of the windowpane,
a deep calm drapes on my shoulders—
melody in a slow velvet saxophone.

My eyes looking past trees to a clearing
wide and open,
magnetic pull to go
T h e r e—

let the dull weight of sharp rain consume me
as I sink d o w n
into the earth
for a moment in time.