[The window is widening on its hinges]
The window is widening its hinges
laboring the summer night
as darkness grows, cracks like vine––
voracious for the light.
Poor little heart
which gazes at the unfurling flowers
and sniffs at the air, hoping
to be allured.
Mia X. Perez is a PhD student of Comparative Literature at CUNY Graduate Center. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Closed Eye Open, AGON Journal, Inverted Syntax, and more.