Arts Alive San Antonio

Today’s poem is by Austin poet, Kimbol Soques, who is currently finishing a Master of Divinity degree. Aren’t we all waiting for the experts to say: Come forth!?

Bell Jar
By Kimbol Soques

Victorian windows
are narrow, dark
with screens tight-woven

100 years in, it’s hard
to remember their gift of sky
until I stand, nose-pressed,
and look up

too, spring’s green
leaves are just at eyes’ edge
beyond the pane —
          flowering happens out there

in here?
dim    and   beige and   still
          and waiting that is work
effort pressing on my skin
without knowing
when the experts will say:

come forth