The View Outside My Window

Jessica McWhirt
2 min readApr 27, 2020

Write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed.

the storage unit across the street

takes up all four corners of the glass,

it looks like a cement accordion,

the concrete bellows stand upright,

the wet edges from cars kicking up rain

almost turn it into art

but it’s still just a mix of sand and stone

that looms across the street

no one seems to enter

and no one seems to leave.

metal containers

apathetically lying around

and trucks collecting dust in the parking lot,

pedestrians walking their dogs

and their humans,

running with headphones,

staring down at their phones

trying to catch pokemon,

sometimes they look into my window

and I’ll stay completely still

like a fixture in the middle of the room.

there’s a tree in the front lawn,

maybe a pine,

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