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03.17.09
Franz Wright | Poetry

"Visiting the Library in a Strange City"

The words reappear, slowly 




developing 
on a vast unknown 
but precise number of pages 

as I enter: the great building 
empty of visitors 
except for me, reading 
the minds of the dead — 

moving with exaggerated 
and slow-motion care, 
as when assigned to lead 
the blind kid to his classroom 

forty years ago, 
down rows 
between dusty volumes, a light 
snow beginning.


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