Riehlife Poem of the Day: Nemerov’s “Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry”
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov from “Sentences” Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned to pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn’t tell. And then they clearly…