Potential Titles: Window

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Looking out from their window that faces the sea - "Abroad"

Misery flying out the window - Duane Ackerson "What If"

Shadows across the windows - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Whole lemons sliced like cathedral windows of sun - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

From the palace window looked forth at set of sun - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

At the open window lingers with dreamy eyes - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"

Spiders in ceremony annotating the windows - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

Undecided at my window - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)

By the radiance in the window - James Armstrong "First Snow"

When time came in the window - John Ashbery "The New Higher"

In sunlight that arrives first at your window - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"

Day shutting its windows - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"

A window onto aphasia - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

Windows all masquerading as insect eyes - Mary Jo Bang "Having Both the Present and Future in Mind"

When the pink sliver of sky swims in through the window - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"

Voltaire knocks at his daughter's window - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"

Through the shield of the window - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"

Emerald hummingbirds at the window - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"

Evoke the future like a window - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"

As I have watched you through windows and keyholes - Josh Bell "One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism"

Floating in light from windows - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"

Filling my dreams with broken windows - Terry Blackhawk "From the Roof"

A window in every dream - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"

Stumbled from the open windows - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"

A window can be a mirror - Sara Borjas "Lies I Tell"

Not all windows open - Sara Borjas "Lies I Tell"

With iron bars over her windows and doors - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

In the window of her thunder - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"

Pelting the window with ice beads - Paul Cameron Brown "Bedroom Glass"

The window is up on the future now - Paul Cameron Brown "Chain Letter"

The fish swam like brilliant magicians toward the window - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"

The windows of the sky unbar - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Opens a thousand windows into one - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

The blank wall by my window - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

Peck at the darkened window - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall

The windows of my room are dark with bitter frost - Bliss Carman "A Northern Vigil"

A goose arrives at his bedroom window - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Outside my mind's window - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"

The never outside my window - Jennifer Chang "Mount Pleasant"

The snarling windows guard their ancient wrong - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"

In the light of the lost window and the wind of the doors undone - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of St. Barbara"

Who loosen the last window on the sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of St. Barbara"

only the solitary fox watching my window - Lucille Clifton "leaving fox"

The sky is a century with no windows - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"

In all the windows of the skies - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

He takes your window for the East - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"

The unkempt gardenias eating the windows - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"

A window that never opens - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"

Out of the window perilously spread - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Hammering the windows with a song - Teyipjan Eliyow "Neverending Song" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

Through the windows of an ancient aquarium - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

The only hand on the blurred window - Nava EtShalom "Composition"

Straining at escaping windows - Mari Evans "Amtrak Suite II"

Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"

watched a star burn through your wall-length windows - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Tossed all my imaginary friends out the window - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Flight"

Her stained windows reared between them and the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

With all its windows blank - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

Dig windows in the hills - Carolyn Forche "Taproot"

Pronounced through windows - Tonya M. Foster "Preamble"

When from the window poured pale light - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Close the windows and not hear the wind - Robert Frost "Now Close the Windows"

Out of the wonderful window to nowhere - Erica Funkhouser "My Father's Lunch"

Discover melodrama in the windows - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

In the windows of the technically not that rich - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

No farther than my window permits - Zona Gale "Enchantment"

Closed the windows of my soul - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

Our window on the risen world - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"

Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"

The phoenix's wings make the windows rattle - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

The window inside of a confessional booth - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Windows of agates, and gates of carbuncles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

Catch yourself in a plate glass window - francine j. harris "Reflections in a Pool of Hair"

This room with too many windows - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2005: What Dreams Are These?"

A whirlwind dusting the windows - Conrad Hilberry "Danse Macabre"

When windows keep their promise to open - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

The language burns on the other side of a closed window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

A wall that was once a window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

Night slips through a gap in the window - David Hornibrook "Nocturne"

Cats gathered beneath the window to listen - David Hornibrook "Pax Americana"

Uncover a window in the burning house - David Hornibrook "Psalm"

Sobs besides the sobs of the window - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"

The window itself blind with grief - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"

Names still haunting windows and doors - Mark Irwin "What a Great Responsibility"

Sun pummels the windows - John James "Lullaby"

As the stars seep through his window - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Looking at the agave outside my window - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"

Wander like thieves into windows - Allison Eir Jenks "After the Parade"

And hand you new windows - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"

Windows, by the moonlight pierced - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

Open up a window of heaven - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

The window that never opens - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

The windows a crunch of glass - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

One wall flies out the window - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

My cats stand watch in the window - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

Soaring high to the bright windows of the sky - "Kindness to Animals" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]

Bright windows of the sky - Anonymous "Kindness to Animals"

The windows of the soul - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

hurling herself teeth-first at the windows - Jennifer L. Knox "How old is Maggie?"

Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"

A cellar window looking out on February - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Eros sleeps with the windows open - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

The leaves fly over the window and utter a word - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"

The window burn in silence - Stephen Leggett "On Poverty"

When a katydid arrives at the window - Stephen Leggett "A Quiet Evening"

The dendrite branching of frost on a window pane - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"

Particles massed by the window - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

Windows open to let the fog roll - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

A buzzard outside my window - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

That keep vigils on the windows of beggars - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

Their windows crashing against rocks - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

Dull, furtive windows in old tottering brick - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.2, Oct. 1934]

Blue through the window burns - Amy Lowell "March Evening"

Silent sunbeams through the window pour - Amy Lowell "On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula"

A city whose windows flame gold - Amy Lowell "The Way"

And stuff my window with roots - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)

our voices shattering the glass windows - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

Where the windows shone across the darkness - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"

And brazen music at the windows - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Hot-House" transl. by Bernard Miall

A topaz sky and huge windows - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

All things were windows on the hall of dread - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Before the resinous reflection of window - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Window cast into mirror by interior lights - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Red knowledge of a window flung wide - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

My reflection in dusty windows - John McCarthy "Mud on the Carpet"

To smash the windows out of my dreams - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Windows carrying a black bird's wing - Shane McCrae "From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It"

Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

To listen at the window of the unknown - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"

Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"

Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

With its flotilla of votive candles in the window - Roger Mitchell "Going Back"

Outside our thick windows - Pat Mora "Bilingual Christmas"

A window where love weeps - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

The forest falling in ribbons through the windows - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Sweeping water past the window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

Rivers of dust through a window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"

At the narrow window of a song - Sharon Olds "The Task of Naming Me"

Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"

Wasps sang at the windows - Mary Oliver "Flare"

The beloved is a window - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"

Peers through the morning's window - Grace Paley "Night Morning"

The blessing of an open window - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Golden windows gazing from the shore - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Dust on the window ledge - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"

Broken hearts and dirty windows - John Prine "Souvenirs"

Crash the window in a dream - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

The watcher at the window - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Focus on the wasp at the window - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

Open windows that lead to oblivion - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Swung from the flame of windows - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"

lightning through the fleeing window - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

Pressed to the window of everything - Valencia Robin "There"

An open window in February - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"

A reality without windows or doors - Philip Schultz "A Moment"

Blackout curtains blank across her window - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Patterned windows webbed in lattice - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

If the window is over your heart - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

A wraparound window overlooking the universe - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

who put a picture window in heaven - Elena Sichrovsky "What if We Held Hands and Blew Up Heaven" [Strange Horizons 9 Oct. 2023]

Windows bursting with confetti - Richard Solomon "The Slave Market with a Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"

Birds crash into a windowed sky - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

A thousand cranes curtain the window - Cathy Song "The Youngest Daughter"

Quiet mystery outside windows - Su Tung-p'o "Midsummer Festival, Wandering Up as Far as the Monastery" transl. by David Hinton

Outside the window spring is gathering force - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

My open window filled with advice - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"

Through the bleak windows of frost - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

Writing names across funereal woods and windows - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

In the house of truth shuttering windows with lies - John Trudell "Baby What's Happening"

The open window ushers in decanted perfume - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Slipshape"

Tears on the window and sighs in the trees - Nancy Byrd Turner "A Rainy Day Plan" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

A rosebud taps at my window pane - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]

Reflecting my own stranger's face in the window - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"

Windows are a seed among headlights - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Out of the window into the air - Wa Wa Chaw "The Indians' Spirit"

Like the sea in a window - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Through the still streets whose windows were shut down - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "The Dream"

Leaning outward thus from this high window - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Walnut-Tree Court"

Slept nights beneath my east window - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton

Windows sealed against the heat - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"

At my window in full bloom - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"

Work a saw to cut out doors and windows - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Rhapsodic apparitions in the gaps between the filthy windows - Bree Wernicke "Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association" [Strange Horizons 13 Oct. 2025]

How thick about the window of my life - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "At the Window"

The stars ran to their windows - Eugene R. White "Reward"

See wildfires through His beloved's window - Zachariah Claypole White "The Angel Questions His Faith" [Strange Horizons 7 July 2025]

And all the windows of my heart - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Winter has broken his windows - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

Breath-prints on a window, handwriting in snow - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


Content in its windowless world - Danusha Lameris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

And pushes us on to the windowless inn - Edwin Markham "Youth and Time"

The trampolined floor of a windowless room - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"


Pane/Windowpane.


who put a picture window in heaven - Elena Sichrovsky "What if We Held Hands and Blew Up Heaven" [Strange Horizons 9 Oct. 2023]


A shadow on the window-screen - Chang Chieh "Remember to Wear Them" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


Windowsill/Sill.


Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"


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