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Andale Mono

by Matthew Zapruder

Today I walked past my door in the rain
and put an old key
in a lock from which gold light shone.
Gold light through the keyhole like didactic
material below a painting glows to explain
the nineteenth century and other things we must know.

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Poem of the WeekMatthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder was born in 1967 in Washington, DC, and is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, awarded the Tupelo Press Editors Prize; The Pajamaist, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). He has also published a collaborative work with painter Chris Uphues, For You in Full Bloom (Pilot Press, 2009). Zapruder lives in San Francisco.

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

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