Carve

Once soft, the nails you hammer
to keep the windowpanes in place
must, at least, resemble eyes to
make up for the years you have spent
trying to be more blind than usual.

Dust makes
everything lifelike.

On the window glass, it is always
obvious where dirt gravitates.
You simply love round windows,
believing that the only purpose of
strange geometries is to distract you

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