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Aug 01, 2022
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A window pane, a blank, defined

panel of blue in black, you find

as evidence of life in this

indifferent metropolis.

Recursions of a stymied mind,

flickerings magnify a blind

computer or TV aligned

with someone else who is amiss,

a window pane

itself. This midnight is the kind

in which, no matter how you wind

the dial, you hear only the hiss

of static leaked by an abyss

until you sense out there, behind

a window, pain.

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Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of history, political analysis, fiction, and poetry. A co-founder of New America, he has worked for The New Yorker, Harper's, and Tablet and taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and UT-Austin.

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