#SampleSunday – poem – Window That Opens

Tomorrow, the A-to-Z Blog Challenge returns with the letter H. Today, a poem:

Muncie, Indiana,

on a Fourth-Floor Hotel Room Window That Opens

by Marian Allen

Open–everything jumps

a dimension. I can smell

the particular perfume

of the town, hear the clock-chime,

alley-rattle, hiss of this town's tires

on this town's asphalt.

A view through glass

might just as well be television.

I can lean out an open window,

see the painted detail

of that rosy cornice, the edge

of that sun-browned balcony,

the trumpet-flowers' two-tone greenery

and orange flare below.

Pigeons become my fellow citizens.

We share a language, denizens of the air.

WRITING PROMPT: Someone or something escapes through an open window.

MA