Promise of Snow

Walter Jost

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I’ll still first go to the window when I wake.
I can stay at it all night, unnerved by the same old ache
And never two alike. That sky that is a lake,

Elided by trees and ambient neighborhood light,
Eludes me—like driving towards some vacation site

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