SELECTED FOR
March 7, 2012 Coldfront
This Morning Feature

Forms, Late Fall

BY Lia Purpura

Those just in, the cut-back, the cut-down.
The jacknifed cornstalks.
The hole-home. The bone-ball.

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Form rescue-projects
— esperance, eliade —
that retroshape the mouth.

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Tools for the least of us
for cleaning, pruning: jaw-scythe.
Rib cage. Hooves raking sky.

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Now, post-motley, hues, havings, all
the bulk gone, the eye has no form but
distance to feed on.

 

Biography

LIA PURPURA‘s latest collection of essays, Rough Likeness, will be published by Sarabande Books in January 2012. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review and Best American Essays. She is a writer-in-residence at Loyola University, in Baltimore, Maryland, and teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop’s low residency MFA program.

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