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@rsthomaspoet.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:53 AM

‘The Window’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
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Text of poem -

The Window.
Say he is any man anywhere set before the shop window of life, full of comestibles and jewels; to put out his hand is to come up against glass; to break it is to injure himself.
Shall he turn
poet and acquire them in the imagination, gospeller and extol himself for his abstention from them?
What if he is not called? I would put the manufacturers there. Let them see the eyes staring in, be splashed with the blood of the shop-breakers; let them live on the poet's diet, on the pocket-money of the priest.
I see the blinds
going down in Europe, over the whole world: the rich with everything to sell, the poor with nothing to buy it with.

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