Stefanie Kirby
Window Ode III
A woman opens as a window. Fresh air rushes her body, fills her flesh with light. When darkness falls, the latches catch, her body panes stuck open. Darkness starts in puddles, rises up to her throat. The woman opens her mouth to sip. Swallowed dark drips from the window of her open body. Darkness drops, light as rain.
Stefanie Kirby lives and writes along Colorado’s Front Range. Her debut chapbook, Fruitful, is the winner of the 2023 Adrift Chapbook Contest, forthcoming from Driftwood Press. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net, and appear in The Massachusetts Review, The Maine Review, The Cincinnati Review, SAND, wildness, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.