drhettie
Glass Weather" explores the architecture of power inside institutional spaces-how visibility can distort as much as it reveals. The poem extends the metaphor of glass beyond the familiar ceiling, imagining an entire climate shaped by inheritance, tone, and unspoken agreements.
I was interested in stillness as a form of authority: influence that does not announce itself, resistance that does not always roar. The speaker navigates systems that test gravity unevenly, where identity refracts experience rather than dilutes it.
Ultimately, this poem asks what it means to inhabit space without shrinking, to remain intact without hardening, and to recognize that sometimes the barrier was never as solid as it seemed.