Window Left Open

they are like the feral cat who purrs and rubs against your leg but will scratch you if you touch back.

Love is letting the world be half-tamed.

—from "Poppies"

In this lush, intricately crafted collection, Jennifer Grotz explores how we can become strange to ourselves through escape, isolation, desire—and by leaving the window open. These poems are full of the sensory pleasures of the natural world and a slo...