To Make a Window

Angela Costi

Angela Costi is working on her seventh poetry manuscript, which is titled The Window Chronicles. She is interested in how the outside space is entangled with the inside and vice versa, and how windows mediate this inexternality or exinternality.

you need a shore of sand
melted         into lava
after having sex with the sun
cooled         into a shock
by snoozing in thigh deep snow
cut                           to fit
a vision of sight without touch
framed                     to engage
artists to copy or praise
scratched                 into smashed
glass                        by
a storm fuelling branches
to                             bash
or an outsider’s baseball
bat                           or
an insider’s pliable body
allegedly                 flung    

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