Your Window by Ruby Mason




Ruby Mason wrote this poem in response to Seamus Heaney's Poem The Skylight
Your Window

I doubt I could reference Mark, Chapter 2
in a poem about a window
but you did, so effortlessly
that I think I will read it again
aloud this time
so that the words slide from my seasoned, extravagant tongue
in the way that you intended...

What a perfect idea: to prise away the roof
so that you can be outside as well as in -
a reminder of the world (which we both like to tangle into poetry).
So I think I’ll share the light
from your squared muse
for a while.

Then I’ll take up this pen again, will find my own skylight.



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