Night of the Republic by Alan Shapiro

Author:Alan Shapiro [Shapiro, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780547329703
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

It is a kind of keeping

faith, a loyalty,

the way the garbled

pieces of the

architrave call back

the column that's

no longer there;

how even now

the horizontal rows

of nearly worn-

away-to-nothing

seats rise steeply

all around the inside

of the colossal oval

that encloses

the missing stage

where Pindar isn't

singing, "Take heart,

remember Oedipus:

if a sharp ax

hacks off the boughs

of a great tree

so its beauty spoils and

its fruit fails,

it can still give

an account of itself

should it come later

to a winter fire,

or should it rest

at last on a foreign

pillar performing

its sad task

so far away

from what it started as."

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