<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Out The Window</span><i style="font-weight: bold;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The pear tree has opened its doors. </p><p class="MsoNormal">What, this season, does the couturier bring? </p><p class="MsoNormal">What new fashion? What robe unforeseen? </p><p class="MsoNormal">Do its boughs bear turkeys or onions or swords?<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">They bring, in sacred repetition, the same dress </p><p class="MsoNormal">They bring, in sacred repetition, the same dress </p><p class="MsoNormal">as before. White, delicate, old-fashioned. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Yet surprising as words. Surprising as windows. </p><p class="MsoNormal">And as swords.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bruce Moody</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align: right;"><br class=""></p></div></body></html>