Windows

Did you know that in Holland it is illegal to have a workspace without a window?

This is mine:

My season in a windowless solitary cubical existence

feels metaphorically & literally

done.

Today the wind is powerful, howling;

I am experiencing it on my face & with my eyes.

Soon this will be my common, my ordinary,

in fact, it has already become fact in my feelings.

After 2 months, I feel here: present.

I look over my calendar and wonder that it hasn't been longer,

then,

that intermittent interaction in which my Dutch is not enough

and I return to reality. 

Many days...or maybe most days. 

Still, my eyes are open, and my face is feeling all: 

sun | wind | rain | stars