4.03.2022

every cat loafing

Some of these houses are startlingly old. 
Other, newer ones seem old too. 
Only when a line of trees ends in something 
Does it resemble the model of progress glimpsed once 
in a bottle as a boy. Our references have all aged a little 
as we were looking at them, not noticing. 
Now there's something perverse in every yellow leaf, 
every cat loafing, even the stick leaning against the door. 
I'd like to get out of these clothes . . . "Later." 
 
And a full moon of oxymorons swings up over the ridgepoles 
with their chimneys. It's light enough to read by. 
But nobody feels like reading now. 

[John Ashbery {1927-2017} 'Avenue Mozart', from your name here]

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