Night Windows, by Michael Estabrook

Night Windows, by Edward Hopper (USA). 1928.

Windows

Love-sick
So in love with her one night he walked four miles
to her house, hid in the bushes hoping for a glimpse
of her up in her bedroom window.

Blind Date
Watched from a window above the cafeteria
as they threw snowballs at one another, tussled in the snow,
her giggling like a little girl, hair shining in the sun.

Embarrassed
So embarrassed spilling her drink in fancy-schmancy
Toscano’s I wished I could turn back time
make it not happen or if it must let it happen to me.

Michael Estabrook

​Michael Estabrook small press poet since the 1980s striving always for greater clarity and concision rendering language more succinct and precise more accessible and appealing a Sisyphean adventure for sure. Retired now writing more and working more outside just noticed two Cooper’s hawks staked out in the yard or rather above it which explains the nerve-wracked chipmunks. Bouncy House is a recent collection edited by Larry Fagin (Green Zone Editions, 2014).
                                    

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