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Old Parking Lot

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Published: Aug 22, 2014

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In the parking lot
padded thickly with snow:
a worn pink sock,
its crooked smile
drawn with marker

surrounded
by icy valleys, pockmarks,
footprints from the crushing
of unseeing boots

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This piece is for the August Workshop at Writers' Workshop! Link: shadowedacolyte.deviantart.com…

*Edited! Following the suggestions of my wonderful commenters, I've added some more backstory and changed some things up. A HUGE thank you to all of the people who gave feedback!*

I admire poets who use lots of abstract language, but I find that I enjoy writing in Willams' style much more. Thank you so much to this workshop for helping me discover that! Originally, this was going to be about a lost glove, but I decided to make it more interesting.

Please feel free to comment/critique!