Cleaning windows

Blue spray and squeegee
Grey clouds from cold dark days past
Beads of grey blood race

Toward the windowpane
Wipe away dark memories
Squeaking S-shaped strokes

Exposed and naked
Transparent windows looking
Out upon a world

Time to put those blinds
Floating on by unhindered
Curtains and plants back

--William McGarvey

It’s Advent. Time to leave the blinds off, to let them float on by unhindered. Let in the light.

People who work in the public eye get my respect, which I try to show by making pictures of them working. If they see me and respond to me and my camera, that’s great! But sometimes they can’t. This man is focused on his work. Can you imagine doing this on a winter day in Chicago? Me neither.