Previously Published on Bitterzoet Magazine . . .

The Shadow of a Window

is a cage, an impenetrable cell

my mind cannot escape.  The edges waver,

whisper like ghosts from corners of a hell

I can only imagine.  I tuck my legs

tighter beneath me, shrink within its frame.

It forces me smaller, smaller, smaller.

Soon I will be gone.

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