The Truth Window is from A Registry of Omens. (All purchases of my poetry support Room to Read!)
The Truth Window
I heard that in other towns,
the truth windows
on the inside of the houses
open up to show the straw
the house was built with.
But I asked Magda,
and she said that strawbales
don’t hold on to protection spells
for every long,
and if they get wet
because you keep opening the
truth window,
your house gets eaten up
by fungus.
That’s why our truth windows
show the bones of the girl
Mama and Daddy killed
to keep the house safe.
