Glass is Only Another Form of Sand

Prairie Resch '21

Plants on my windowsill.

Bird which hit my window this morning

(and I wonder if it was my fault

for putting plants away behind panes of glass).

But curtains had hung shut, then,

(blank expanses

and not mirrors reflecting sky and space).

No little body when I looked

(felled by something it couldn’t see,

ivy beneath my window holding no bird).

Birdsong, and songs of early insects

(and life slowly unfurled

outside).

Mid-morning sun

(which is strange to me;

I have become too familiar with winter’s darkness).

Tableau vivant

(so it appears from inside, at least,

every place filled, every role perfected).

Plants, on my windowsill

(I suppose they will remain, then

still behind their panes of glass).

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Editor-in-Chief
Abby Fossati
Prairie Resch

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Jessica Chapman
Joanna Wei

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Alexander Yuen
Amanda Wang

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Abigail Kruger
Caroline Asnes
Pearl Miller

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Ella Ip
Fiona Li

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Julia Kosinski

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Ms. Renee Harlow