Daily Poem: Moon in the Window ~ Dorianne Laux

August 21, 2017 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | No Comments

Moon in the Window
~ Dorianne Laux

I wish I could say I was the kind of child
who watched the moon from her window,
would turn toward it and wonder.
I never wondered.  I read.  Dark signs
that crawled towards the edge of the page.
It took me years to grow a heart
from paper and glue.  All I had
was a flashlight, bright as the moon,
a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.

Moon in the window

Moon in the window

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