“Funicular,” by Rebecca Foust (Poetry ’10)

“Funicular,” a poem by 2010 graduate Rebecca Foust, was recently featured in Tikkun. Read an excerpt below:

Funicular

On seeing Gaudi’s model in the Sagrada Familia

Oh merciful God, please don’t let me die
before I’ve used Gaudi’s model in a poem
that can outwit art like he cheated gravity
& math, bags of birdshot hung plumb
to suspend & subvert verticality

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://www.tikkun.org/blog/2020/10/12/funicular/