The Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River, nicknamed “The Pepperpot (or Pepper Pot) Bridge.
‘‘….winter drifts to where
The Pepperpot, ironic rainbow, spans
Charles River and its scales of scorched-earth miles
I saw my city in the Scales, the pans
Of judgment rising and descending. Piles
Of dead leaves char the air –
And I am a red arrow on this graph
Of Revelations. Every dove is sold.
The Chapel's sharp-shinned eagle shifts its hold
On serpent-Time, the rainbow's epitaph.’’
— From “Where the Rainbow Ends,’’ by Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
