Late December: my father and I
are going to New York, to the circus.
He holds me
on his shoulders in the bitter wind:
scraps of white paper
blow over the railroad ties.
My father liked
to stand like this, to hold me
so he couldn't see me.
I remember
staring straight ahead
into the world my father saw;
I was learning
to absorb its emptiness,
the heavy snow
not falling, whirling around us.
Snow
Louise Gluck
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Poem topics: remember, snow, wind, world, white, december, straight, circus, bitter, stand, hold, heavy, paper, father, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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