The Woman Hanging From The 13th Floor Window

She is her mother s daughter and her father s son.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window.

While this woman is hanging there she starts to have flashbacks about her life starting from her childhood up until now. The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of chicago is not alone. She is a woman of children of the baby carlos and of margaret and of jimmy who is the oldest. She is all the women of the apartment.

March 30 2017 forman stanley harjo joy the woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window. However intricate and elaborate her story may seem though she doesn t actually exist. She is several pieces between the two husbands she has had. In the poem the woman hanging from the 13th floor window you open with a woman hanging on for her life while contemplating suicide.

The poem ends with the either or choice still not made either she will fall to her death or she will climb back in the window and reclaim her life. The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window is set in east chicago the indian side of town where native americans are isolated from their culture and trapped in an endless cycle of. Commentary one of the impressive qualities of this poem is its continuous present tense the woman is hanging and feeling and thinking while she is trying to decide whether or not she will let go. This poem was published 8 years after the tragedy and harjo may have begun working on it after seeing this photograph though i m totally speculating here.