[Started this over two years ago and just found i lying in the dusty bins…]
The window in the shower in my bathroom
Looks out over a driveway high up and
Across the way to the matching windows
My neighbors’ bathrooms but usually they’re
Dark or closed and frosted, sometimes the
Wire mesh screen obscures the view
Hot water feels so good coursing over the top
Of my head, running down my back and legs
So many times I get lost in thought,
Far enough away from where I stand
To make me lose my place in the cleaning
Once, for three days in a row, one window
One floor down one apartment to the north
Was open and the light was on so I could
See into the bathroom from a high angle
But no one walked in, no naked body presented
Me with a stalker’s thrill
My window brings in fresh air and cools
The Summer heat, offers a path for the air
To flow across the apartment instead of
Standing and dying in place but in
Winter all the windows are closed
Against the cold, but I shiver still.
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