John Ashbery

Lost and Found and Lost Again

Like an object whose loss has begun to be felt

Though not yet noticed, your pulsar signals

To the present death. “It must be cold out on the river

Today.””You could make sweet ones on earth.

 

They tell him nothing. And the neon Bodoni

Presses its invitation to inspect the figures

Of this evening seeping from a far and fatal corridor

Of relaxed vigilance: these colors and this speech only.

John Ashbery

 John  Ashbery

John Ashbery's recent books include Selected Prose (University of Michigan Press, 2004) and Where Shall I Wander. He is Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.


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