Solitude
By Lia Purpura
No one home.
Snow packing
the morning in.
Much white
nothing filling up.
A V of birds
pulling
the silence
until some dog
across the street
barks, and breaks
what I call my peace.
What a luxury
annoyance is.
It bites off
and keeps
just enough of
what I think
I want to be endless.
Lia Purpura, "Solitude" from It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful. Copyright © 2015 by Lia Purpura. Used by permission of Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Source:
It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
(Penguin Books, 2015)