Winter in Petrograd, by ​Mark Silverberg

Winter in Petrograd, by Boris Anisfeld (Russia). 1917.

Winter in Petrograd 

is a blue window 
awake
on the wide space
of poverty,
tiny in the 
cold water 
dawn

streets whitening,
gasping windows
breathing 
the wide
canvas air

unclothed in the
simplest language
apple
winter
dawn

​Mark Silverberg

​Mark Silverberg is the author of the Eric Hoffer award-winning ekphrastic poetry collection, Believing the Line: The Jack Siegel Poems (Breton Books, 2013). His poetry has appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Antigonish Review, The Nashwaak Review and Contemporary Verse 2. He is an Associate Professor of English at Cape Breton University where I specializes in American poetry, visual arts, and artistic collaborations.