<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581589" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Varsity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My idea of paradise<br>is a university at dusk, <br>late May, utterly alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No angels necessary—<br>just the clouds of insects<br>whirring around like electrons, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and no heavenly light, either, <br>unless it was that kind that only<br>comes from a very old streetlamp <br>filtering through oak leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never mind, for now, <br>that those Corinthian columns<br>are not fashioned from cirrus, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or that the low-watt hum<br>of the generators does not really<br>resemble a celestial choir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Focus instead on that greenhouse<br>and its thousand dreaming cacti, <br>on the stars' dim oscillations, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the graduate student pacing<br>in the solitary lit window<br>like an insomniac Dante</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and grading with a blue felt pen<br>a piece of poetry much like this one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Apfelbach">Christopher Apfelbach</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581589" data-title="Varsity de Christopher Apfelbach" data-description="My idea of paradise is a university at dusk, late May, utterly alone. No angels necessary— just the clouds of insects whirring around like electrons, and no heavenly light, either, unless it was that kind that only comes from a very old str..."></div> </div> </div>

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