Two Poems
John Ashbery, 20 January 2000
Cheerio. Nothing on the shore today. Far out to sea, some eczema mimicking sunlight and shadow, with but temporary success.
Was it for wandering that I have been punished? Or was it another plot of the siblings, Always anxious to torment, to twist my hair into witches’ brooms, with no inherent power?
Remember they love you like powder in the air, and it wouldn’t take...