Apartment Poetry Quarterly

3A              3B              3C              3D              3E              3F

 

1C

 

WIND WAKE

The blinds don’t move
when wind’s an iris rising.

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Caught in a current,
the last raisin leaves
are put down for winter.

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I look at a photo
of dense clover—
it doesn’t move.

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Not even the chalky back
of an eyelid twitching
moves me.

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The blind’s shadow
like an itch across the wall bends
around a corner. Into the open

eye its light comes and I take it.