For Real Toads: window challenge

Mary, a talented member of the online writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, hosts a challenge called Mary's Mixed Bag. Today, she has asked us to write about windows.

Photo by Kay L. Davies, December 2011

I started off with a little of my usual doggerel, thinking to use a photo of the window my husband had installed in the door by my computer desk in 2011. It was a gift for my birthday, and I was thrilled. It overlooks our small front yard, which is almost covered by the branches of an ornamental crabapple tree. We don't use the fruit, but leave it on the tree for visiting wildlife, mostly of the winged or antlered variety, which can be pretty exciting and certainly a lot of fun to watch.

I once had a window made for me

so I could look outside and see

our crabapple tree whose frozen fruit

the birds and deer would come to loot

However, after four lines of said doggerel, I began to think about no windows, and the thought made me feel hollow inside, so I wrote something else.

HOLLOW INSIDE

a house without windows

a room with no door

a boat full of holes

on the ocean floor

a life without living

a song with no tune

there’s no thanksgiving

with no harvest moon

we remain unforgiven

if there was no sin

for there was no window

no one looking in

Kay L. Davies, January, 2013