Monday, November 15, 2010

Pittsburgh is poetry

Today's Poem of the day, brought to you by Poets.org is a poem by Pittsburgh native Gerald Stern.


Books


How you loved to read in the snow and when your
face turned to water from the internal heat
combined with the heavy crystals or maybe it was
reversus you went half-blind and your eyelashes
turned to ice the time you walked through swirls
with dirty tears not far from the rat-filled river
or really a mile away—or two—in what
you came to call the Aristotle room
in a small hole outside the Carnegie library

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