Window Shopping

Let me have this life, I think
To the glimpse cut deep in the wall:

Flowers, cat, tomatoes 
On the sill
And all. What
Doesn’t show
Beyond the drifting curtains’ trim?
What color thoughts, skin
Of a timeline’s webbed reach
To some different end; 
Different, each,
Judging by the framing.

Here, wrought iron grate
Or glasswork glow, colors’
Rich shade to scatter. Next –
A lamp, warm and screened
By plant life. A dog, a face
An open space, clean and
Waiting: Call Now. 

Bookshelves, kitchens, 
Many chairs; painting
In progress. Wallpaper 
Scares –

Most of all, 
The ones I can’t see
Behind walls.

Most of all, reflection
Of the wish I have to see
My walls from outside: 

In others’ window shopping
Do they too stop to see
The curtains’ glimpse cut deep?

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