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# Windows
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/windows/
- Published: 2022-08-27T18:33:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T05:05:45.000Z
- Description: I wish to sit by the window and read—but not outside, where UV rays intrude, and wildfire smoke, and gunfire, and bird-shit dropped...
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry

I wish to sit by the window and read—but not  
outside, where UV rays intrude, and wildfire  
smoke, and gunfire, and bird-shit dropped

at random. In my mind’s eye the outdoors  
wounds but does not break the skin, like  
the nip of a puppy as opposed to a hornet's

sting or attack-dog’s bite. Still, even here  
the doorbell rings, my son asks to play, the  
ground quakes, the computer dings insistently—

everything conspires against this book, for what  
profit is there in poetry? In the book of life  
there is a to-do list: prepare your will, chisel

a quote for the tombstone, stuff your resume with  
achievement, that the mourners have much to praise.  
What time to read? To sleep? And when, at last, I doze

off, I dream my eyes are windows, the willows  
are eyelashes, the clouds eyebrows: If I do not  
hurt myself, what can shatter me here?