FROM BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS

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(Sorry Alphabe readers - I go by Jeannette St.G for this blog!)
This is a street in a little town called Wijk bij Duurstede in the Netherlands. 
W for Alphabe -
The street leads up to a castle ( in the province Utrecht
in the middle of the country). Remember from your history lessons 
that the castle owners used to have servants 
and farmers living around the castle to supply the the nobility with food, etc. 
This town makes that previous life style very obvious.

 (the "ij" in Wijk is a peculiar sound where non-Dutch struggle with. It sounds 
somewhat as in the word  "like" if an Irish person would pronounce it. 
Sorry I can't come closer than that for pronunciation!) 

Walk to the Castle in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands

Behind glass
I saw this man

wandering, or?

on the shadow side

to be less inconspicuous

he left the bench after

I saw him waiting

 for hours

was he just taking a walk
with nothing to do
or did someone 
stand him up?
a lonely feeling arises
or abandoned
deeply disappointed
where will he go now


will he be someone I saw 
once and vanishes
or will his image
come back in my dreams
or waking hours
 when heat simmers
and I look from behind
the looking glass?

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