Houseboat Days by John Ashbery

Author:John Ashbery [Ashbery, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480459151
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2014-01-10T20:23:00+00:00

Drame Bourgeois

A sudden, acrid smell of roses, and the urchin

Turns away, tears level in the eyes. Waffled feeling:

“You’d scarce credit it, mum,” as the starched

Moment of outline recedes down a corridor, some parts

Lighter, but the ensemble always darker as the vanishing point

Is reached and turns itself

Into an old army blanket, or something flat and material

As this idea of an old stump in a woods somewhere.

Then it is true…. It is you, who, that

Wet evening in March … Madam, say no more,

Your very lack of information is special to me,

Your emptying glance, prisms which I treasure up.

Only let your voice not become this clarion,

Alarum in the wilderness, calling me back to piety, to sense,

Else I am undone, for late haze drapes the golf links

And the gilded spines of these tomes blaze too bright.

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