Volume 43, Number 4
How Women View Windows
Most houses have a window
over the kitchen sink
and next to the passenger side of the bed:
a confessional with no priest.
Amber to hold handprints,
Contouring the light.
Consider the fragility
borne of crosshatches
and spider cracks
that fragment perception.
A shard is a synecdoche—
Its original properties intact.
Sunlight makes it a gem
Among stones.
Sometimes, windows divide
a woman from herself, match girl
from debutante, in the reflection
she sees at night.