The Younger Scholar by Robert Knox

When I spoke to the young professor

of Lavinia and Vanzetti

of the meeting of minds

a middle class woman

a beseeching apostle of The Beautiful Idea,  

the rain fell gently

as the sleep of winter rolled silently away

and the love of a world to come

rose like tendrils in my heart

Robert Knox is a poet, fiction writer, and Boston Globe correspondent. As a contributing editor for the online poetry journal, Verse-Virtual, his poems appear regularly on that site. They have also appeared in journals such as The American Journal of Poetry, New Verse News, Unlikely Stories, and others. His poetry chapbook "Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty" was nominated for a Massachusetts Best Book award. He was named the winner of the 2019 Anita McAndrews Poetry Award.