.. a song new like rain

   ..

   It gets more and more simplistic:

   Good and bad, evil and bad;

      what else do we know?

..

But there was that train of thought

That satisfied one nicely: how one was going to climb down

Out of here, hopefully

To arrive on a perfectly flat spit of sand

Level with the water.

  ..

  But for all you I 

  Have neglected, ignored,

  ..

  Not been that friend that is     approaching,

  I ask forgiveness, a song new     like rain.

  Please sing it to me.

John Ashbery

April Galleons

  Posture of Unease

  [fragments]

Collected Poems,

  1956-1987

op. cit.

Winchimes Cypress Point

Thorny

22 December 2012,

arriving late March