Beyond the Glass
mjd 01/22/03 23:41

She peers into the blackness
Beyond the window

Touches
And empathizes with the startling cold of the glass

Feels the burdening connection to sorrow between
It and her fingertips

And envisions a scarlet web,
Finer than unspun silk,
Trailing
And coursing its way from
Finger
Elbow
Shoulder
Breast

To her heart

There a feeling lingers,
Like paint papered over,
Deeper than the darkness
Beyond the glass