out-swung
window wings spread
             cool respite
                        release cloistered
breathing	porous house
             to porous
                         evenings
             golden
noises
             home to home
mingle
             in the warm dark
so close



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Burgi Zenhaeusern (she/her) is the author of the chapbook Behind Normalcy (CityLit Press, 2020), winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize. She co-edited the translations of the poetry anthology Knocking on the Door of the White House (Zozobra Publishing, 2017, J. Ballesteros et al. editor). Her poems appear in Seneca Review, Diagram, Oversound, and elsewhere. Find her at https://burgizenhaeusern.com/ and on twitter @burgi323.