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Through panes of well-scrubbed glass, she glumly peers
at birds she knows. Though she can’t say their names,
she’s drawn by wings that swoop and songs she hears
through panes of well-scrubbed glass. She glumly peers
at feathered flight, so jealous she’s near tears;
she wishes she could somehow join their games
through panes of well-scrubbed glass. She glumly peers
at birds she knows, though she can’t say their names.
Author: Jean L. Kreiling
Jean L. Kreiling is the author of two poetry collections, Arts & Letters & Love (2018) and The Truth in Dissonance (2014); her work has been honored with the Able Muse Write Prize, the Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters Sonnet Award, a Laureates’ Prize in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, three New England Poetry Club prizes, and the String Poet Prize.