Insider Story
Sophie Molden
Dead leaves, as if chickadees,
Skatter and whistle in the wind.
Ways that a dead thing moves
Without knowing it’s moving at all.
Without understanding how
I see it — approaching, all clear.
Diversion of the window
Reflects myself.
“And I am light
And I am framed
Guilty by this, my body.
The more of me there is,
The less I matter.
Inside is, then, outside—
And I am between it all.”
Through you the leaves and birds
Come to me
Lensed by your presence.
Protect me, beloved perspective
Of the warbling glass.
Sophie Molden is a senior English major in Benjamin Franklin College and a Yale Journalism Scholar with a nonfiction creative writing concentration. She has published creative writing in The New Journal.
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