



Photo by H.R. Debs



Here looking out the window, drawing back the drapery

to see through the pane, depending on the day,

squinting to view the dazzling light of a new morning

or seeing rain pouring down on the street below.

Sometimes it starts with rain, the day I think about

staring out the window, will I find myself today?

I can stay at the window or go to the door.



The door is closed until I open it and walk

out onto the sidewalk, bright with sunlight or



wet beneath my feet from the early

morning rain. I stand and scan

all that surrounds

me as I seize the day,

searching for a sign within the

compass of my shadow

on the pavement very far

from a place I can call home.



The walls I encounter walking on my way,

they are all around to make me stop

and wonder where next to go while still

seeking a telling sign, the walls

change my course, shift my direction.



Along the way doors open to new worlds within

should I enter upon such invitations—



and other doors lead to nowhere

and if I dare turn



toward a route that

takes me to what

appears ahead

I will find myself

in a place beyond

where I am here now

and given time, I will

meander amid the

windows, doors, and walls Photo by H.R. Debs

there in a place

I can call home.











Howard Richard Debs received a University of Colorado Poetry Prize at age 19. After spending the past fifty years in the field of communications, with recognitions including a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Educational Press Association of America, he has recently resumed his literary pursuits, and his latest work appears or is forthcoming in Calliope, Big River Poetry Review, Poetica Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Misfitmagazine, Star 82 Review, Belle Reve Literary Journal, Verse-Virtual, Dialogual, Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, Remarkable Doorways Literary Magazine, Indiana Voice Journal, Blue Bonnet Review, China Grove, Yellow Chair Review, and On Being, among others.



His background in photography goes back many years, both creative and technical, and his photography will be found in select publications, including in Rattle online as “Ekphrastic Challenge” artist and guest editor. Born and bred in Chicago, he now lives in sunny South Florida with his wife of 50 years Sheila, where they spend considerable time spoiling their four grandchildren. Author listing Poets & Writers Directory https://www.pw.org/content/howard_debs

Author website: http://communicatorsandcommunications.com/muse-ings/





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