Janine Joseph is the author of Driving without a License, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her libretti for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco include What Wings They Were, “On This Muddy Water,” and From My Mother’s Mother. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University.
Lacuna (7), 2017 by Sara Jimenez
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In the beginning, there was a window
I pried the blinds to make lightof my losses
I fished my hands into and sh…