• Looking outside & not sure if someone is going to peer back in
  • The fact that I didn’t notice that I had full length blinds for a long time, nor how much light was not coming through the window until I cleaned it quite recently
  • The little section of glowing yellow from my crazy light on my ceiling
  • The trash cans sitting outside
  • saying hello sometimes saying not
  • the grandmother who did make eye contact with me, the kids who do
  • the constant scrubbing of the pane that never gets better
  • thoughts of the LSE painter man who looks the same every time I see him, in white overalls and on his knees or reaching above his head to draw lovingly and carefully the handswidth brush across another inch of the institution’s walls
  • does someone watch me sleeping?
  • when can I have the windows open?