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I Am Windowless

from American Goodbye by Nancy Burke

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I * am windowless

I * am windowless
Can’t tell the sun from the rain or the spring from the fall.
I * am windowless
Don’t try to conjure the light through the cracks in the wall.

The salts of the oceans transported by rainbows
That course through the veins of the streets and are gone.
The lakes that evaporate, leaving their films on the
Buildings, the dusty pink haloes of dawn.

But I * am windowless
Can’t tell the suns from the springs or the rains from the falls.
I * am windowless
Don’t try to conjure your light through the cracks in my walls.

The buzz of communities, chorus of forests,
That bury the conifers snug in their green,
The hum of oblivion, cry of becoming,
The trees that recall all the sorrows you’ve seen.

But I * am windowless,
Pacing the space between chairs and the time between beds.
I * am windowless,
Don’t try to conjure the seven strong winds from the gusts in my head.

Visions of entering in on the slipstreams, and
Up through the stairwells to heavens unsealed
Revealing of beauties as blinkingly,
Blindingly white as the breathless first snow on the fields.

But I * am windowless
Angular tangle of obsolete elbows and echoes and sills
I * am windowless
Motionless traveler stuck in this endless dark battle of wills.

I * am windowless
Snow on the fields
I * am windowless
Snow in the sky
I * am windowless
I *

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from American Goodbye, released December 17, 2018
Nancy Burke, Vocals
Steve Dawson, Everything Else

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