Two Poems
Tony Harrison: ‘Fruitility’, 28 October 1999
“... crooks and suicides. Verdi with his vision blurred by birdshit stares from 73rd down at Dante at the Met where Verdi helps some to forget. But when they leave or enter there there’s no avoiding Dante’s stare, nor what’s beneath his constant gaze and stays there, while the opera plays, and pizza cartons three ... ”