Window
posted Aug 7, 2006
The window opens with good intentions
But ends up in the dark
It would like to be a frame
Gilt-edged and smart
It would like to be a wall
Stoic unblinking
It would like to be anything
Anything but this
This mirror without appetite
© 2006 Barry Seiler
Retaining Wall, and Black Leaf. "Dust Jacket," "Window," and "Pincushion" are part of "Flotsam," a sequence of about thirty poems. He divides his time between urban northern New Jersey and rural upstate New York.
has published four books of poems: Frozen Falls, The Waters of Forgetting,