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Poetry: From the January/February 2007 issue | See all poetry



Parking Lot In Snow

Sitting,
deepened by
this ticking sound
which is itself a kind of breath
joining my breath
slowing impatience
measuring nerves
so that these too
might blow
and scatter and land.

Then clearing the windows off
and waiting
for the pleasure of growing dark again.

- Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura is the author of “The Brighter the Veil” (winner of the Towson University Prize in Literature), and Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash, translated on a Fulbright year in Poland. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Teaching / Writing Fellow in Poetry.

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