I think Ill take a walk down by the Ohio River today... November Fifth, Riverside Drive by Katha Pollitt The sky a shock, the ginkgoes yellow fever, I wear the day out walking. November, and still light stuns the big bay windows on West End Avenue, the park brims over with light like a bowl and on the river a sailboat quivers like a white leaf in the wind. How like an eighteenth-century painting, this year s decorous decline: the sun still warms the aging marble porticos and scrolled pavilions past which an old man, black-coated apparition of Voltaire, flaps on his constitutional. Clear air, clear mind -as if he could outpace darkness scything home like a flock of crows. November Fifth, Riverside Drive by Katha Pollitt, from Antarctic Traveller. © Knopf, 1994. Reprinted with permission.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:14:05 +0000
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