Can You Hear, Bird: Poems by John Ashbery

Author:John Ashbery [Ashbery, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480459342
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

Palindrome

In the days of French film and infanticide

and red flannel hash, words we kept for trading

up, which were later lost, other lost words,

angry at being snubbed for so many years,

surrounded us like owls in a boathouse. “To whom

are we indebted for the honorable occasion?” Words

no dictionary ever knew, or acknowledged having known,

like “spludge” or “parentitis.” But then, what can we do,

there are so many, like zillions of bats

emerging from a cave at sunset, feeling the cool air

thread deliriously down their membranes. Yet they too

can get us in trouble. And it’s fun to play along,

ears cocked for no special din, until the thud

of morning commences, and a child appears,

etched on the air of my room.

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