Saturday, March 2, 2013

.. 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







Thursday, February 28, 2013

Qu'est-ce qu'un connoisseur?






     There is a film of dust
            on the lucid morning ..
     Flavors that keep us from
            caring too long.



















John Ashbery
April Galleons
  Posture of Unease
  [fragment]
Collected Poems
  1956-1987
op. cit.


I feel this belongs
to Valéry Lorenzo.







Wednesday, February 27, 2013

In his own music, Britten




    The centenary of
    England's great-
    est composer af-
    ter Purcell will
    bring fine music
    forward to a new
    time, and infor-
    mation of sorrow.









Sunday, February 24, 2013

Reform in postal servitude




    In the United States,
    there is talk of giv-
    ing our letter carri-
    ers Saturday off. But
    wholesome habits only
    find a new expression
    in the spirit of fine
    service.