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THE WINDOWS

 

I size up windows from a garden’s end:

all black at first in geometric lots

inset in white walls phloxed and cyclamened

with scent.  Black glass like nothing-slots.

Then I see how the oak I’m under knots,

refigured, in the sunglass window panes.

The house itself is full of forest veins.

... 

  

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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