May 13, 2009 / Creative Writing
I watched Rebel Without a Cause on TV late one college night when I learned …
I’ve seen you look into a store window
the way I look into a book
like you I begin with what’s inside
like you distracted
when you find your image there
adjusting an errant strand of hair
Any word can form itself
unbidden
into thought
or into a thousand pictures
any image can be written back
into three-dimensional reality
A good window shows
what you already know
encapsulates
the beauty of our self-conscious world
gives courage to change the things we can
though the wind blows where it will
About the Author
D. S. Martin
D. S. Martin is the author of four poetry collections, including Ampersand and Conspiracy of Light from Cascade Books. He is poet-in-residence at McMaster Divinity College, the series editor for the Poiema Poetry Series, and the editor of three recent anthologies: The Turning Aside; Adam, Eve, and the Riders of the Apocalypse; and In A Strange Land. Martin has posted weekly about Christian poetry on his blog, Kingdom Poets, since February of 2010. He and his wife live in Brampton, Ontario; they have two adult sons.
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