OUt of the window

Out of a window
You can have the most beautiful moments
Looking out of that window
From your library chair
Over your laptop screen
Life happens
Out of a window
Leaves fly
The wind blows
Waltzes excite leaves
Big ones, little ones
Riding the airy flows
And colors explode
They move as you work
And eyes catch them sometimes
Memory snapshots
And you get amazed
At momentary beauty
And hurry to share
Pointing at them
The fire full sky
The white grayish clouds
The black blue dark night
Approaching there far
Out of a window
Happiness waits
Its energy grabbed
Inside the library flaked
Among the words on paper
Among the pages on books
Among the scribbles on documents
Intensely worked through
That’s work in the library
Amazing surprisingly
Where hope pushes forward
To open new windows
Towards a different world
Wishing it saves for us
The same exciting beauty
We find out of a window
This fall
 
J.GJ.
23 October 2013
Alderman Library, UVA, Charlottesville, VA