Showing posts with label Harvey Shapiro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvey Shapiro. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Dusk at Fourth and 2nd


11x14 pastel of Brooklyn on Fourth Avenue approaching 2nd Street.

The poet of Brooklyn, Harvey Shapiro, died last week.  He wrote a poem called "Cathedral".

I went out
and this thought rose
before me like a great cathedral
and it said:
Transcendence.  Transcendence.
Or at least
try a bit harder.