Thank You
.
You repair the broken window that lets
a stray cat in to sniff my comforter,
stare at me from the sill like a conscience,
the air so cold my knees ache in the bed
even before I sit up to search with
my feet for the waiting slippers, the ones
the golden puppy chewed that spring we got
him, before we lost you and learned to make
dreams our mode where you unroll the duct tape
to seal a piece of cardboard over the
empty pane that is whole when I awake.
.
Sandra Kolankiewicz is the author of Even the Cracks (forthcoming), Lost in Transition, The Way You Will Go, and Turning Inside Out.
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