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November 1999

Brooklyn

by Harvey Shapiro

The lights of two bridges
framed in my study window
are more pleasant to me
because more constant to me
than the ornate lit cathedral
across from my hotel in Barcelona.
Let them be my memorial candles
when I am through with this world.


Harvey Shapiros latest book is How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems (Wesleyan University Press)
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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 18 November 1999, on page 42
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