Always in awe
of how
sunlight

enters
a room
through open

venetian
shades
casting

delicate
shadows of
leaf

that reach
upward
toward sky.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.