Explore "A Little Window: Aloofness" by Jean M. Snyder on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
/ Down among the docks and elevators and railroad tracks / On the way out of the city, / I pass a tiny cottage so rickety / That its neighbors crowd close / To hold it up. But there it is, / Its one window shining clean, and glowing / With a plant in a tin can and pure white curtains.
Hanging over the fence and filling the whole place / With its beauty and almost hiding the cottage / Is a peach tree in full bloom.
In the doorway I glimpse a girl / In a purple dress.
But what matters the smoke and the noise and the fog / To the peach tree?