Create a New Post on your blog today with one of the Window Poems you created in your journal during class--either the poem about the view out of your own chosen window OR what you wrote about the view through the window of Edward Hopper's painting of the yellow house. You could, of course, post both. Feel free to add to or revise. Include at least one image.
Here's my example...As you can see, I didn't follow directions and wrote about the view looking into a window (my neighbors'! creeper!) rather than out.
Window Poem: On the Birth of Alex C.
I see chili pepper barstools
through the kitchen window
of the house next door--
barstools I wouldn't have chosen
but a dining table I might have
and a pantry I envy.
The man of the house
ducks down quickly behind that table,
shielding himself from the glow
of my headlights, but I still see
he's in only his tightie-whities.
Tonight the lights are still on
long after my neighbors' normal bedtime.
New babies always disrupt schedules,
change lives completely.
Melting ice drips from the gutter
above the window onto mounds of
lingering, dirty snow on the driveway
between our two houses.
Shiny balloons float above the table
heralding congratulations upon
the family's new arrival.
A new mother leans for a moment
against the kitchen counter
trying to catch her breath.
