after James McNeill Whistler
She stands at the window
hair tucked away
hands on stone still.
Morning light gold through
tapping young leaves.
Her hands kneading on stone
yeast rising to the
twittering of birds.
Emily K. Iekel is a poet, translator, and musician living and teaching in Baltimore with her spouse. She has had poems, prose, and a children’s play published in Salome Magazine, Troubadour21, Elfwood, The Boiler Journal, English Teaching Daily, The Voices Project, Off the Wall Plays, and other venues.