The End of Michelangelo by Dan Gerber

Author:Dan Gerber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

February 25, 1970

The scrim of the sky almost

radiating blue—a rare,

midwinter break in the clouds and

lake-effect snow that would keep us

longing for light from November

into spring—the day,

still, sharp, and clear, with

a little actual warmth from the

sun you could feel when you

turned your face up to it—a day

fragile and dazzling, above

the still-crystalline snow, and

in the evening, savoring the last of it

as I drove out toward the county

road, hearing the news

on public radio that

Mark Rothko—whose grave

canvases had not yet

taken possession of me—was dead, and,

remembering it now as a premonition

of something I would come to love,

how the deep azure of the sky to the east

and the darkening white plane of

the pasture below it dwelt there, just about equally.

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