Daniel Wallock \ Spring 2015

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Your Window

Your window
breaks with
sunshine,
and I know that
your shadow
shivers between
thin sheets.

Each night,
as I stumble
through the leaves,
the leaves
that are dry and old
and the leaves
that are cold
and worried

your shadow lines
the window
and I can't
help but wonder
about his pen,
and whether it traces
or sketches,
and whether his pen
just happens to be colder
then these leaves.

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Daniel Wallock is an 18-year-old college student in New York and the author of two books. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Burningword, Wild Quarterly, Paragraph Planet, ExFic, The Vending Machine Press, Agave Magazine, and The Bolt Magazine. Daniel has received numerous writing awards including first place in San Jose State University's Nonfiction Short Story Contest. Daniel worked as Manager of Marketing at Ginosko Literary Journal and he's the founder of This Very Breath Journal.