The Met Cloisters, New York
Netanel Schwartz
I cannot among all these Christs passioned
in the colonnade offer you better
than this. Melancholy will not weather
an open courtyard and opals cached in
under a dribbling spring and ashen
statues overlooking: mute treasure
of a church we will not enter. Enter!
The old guard falls. Oh, after a fashion
I can read a common place: common grief
carved into a gray forehead. The new guard
rounds the corner and forgets and is lost.
How much I’d lift for you. That wood relief
from York, 1290—or this spring’s postcard:
the winter Hudson, all its waters frost.
Netanel Schwartz is a student at Yale University.
ABOUT THE ART | On the Verge by Sophie Chmelar, 2025. Sophie Chmelar is a student at Yale University.
