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A detail from Anne Piper's sidewalk poem, courtesy of 

Last week I wrote about the College of Visual Arts latest exhibition, featuring an installation by 

. What I didn't mention was that he also did a series of pieces in the CVA's exterior display windows, inspired by the sidewalk poem imprinted in the cement on the northwest corner of Selby and Western. Here's the poem, by local poet Anne Piper:

Anne Piper lives on the West Side. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary journals. She has an MFA in poetry from Hamline University, where she received the Outstanding Poetry Thesis Award in 2008. A version of "Not like fire" appeared in 

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In telling us what her love wasn't, Anne Piper gives us a powerful image of what that love was.

MN poetry: Anne Piper’s “Not like fire”

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