windows for miracles
After a baby was rescued from the rubble 150 hours
after the Türkiye and Syria earthquake
windows for miracles
open hands dig
exposed in corruption and winter freeze
brute force against crushed
walls of concrete
windows for miracles
rimy pictures extort tears
tiny pockets of air save
and in renascence we all
breathe humanity’s ache
windows for miracles
closed hard as steel shutters
trapped against meaning
we scramble under rubble of news
grass and birds stone-walled
Colleen Keating