Poems by John Ashbery
Chinese Whispers
... Not now. There is a famine of years in the land, the women are beautiful, ...
Anticipated Stranger,
... I mean . . . Oh well, less said the better, they all say ...
Soonest Mended
... The colorful but small monster near her toe, as though wondering whether forgetting ...
Rivers and Mountains
... The rioters turned out of sleep in the peace of prisons ...
Boundary Issues
... with wood pulp against the noon gloom proposing its enigmas, ...
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
... ed with the same word when first published in the Times Literary Supplement (October 24, 1980): ...
My Erotic Double
... Shot through with questions and fissures of starlight ...
