Silent Poetry Reading
Posted by Lanea on Friday, February 2nd, 2007
It would be pretty lame if a poetry blog couldn’t get its act together to participate in the Blogger’s Silent Poetry Reading, huh?
I’m going to cheat, because I’m like that. At first I was going to post my favorite Lauterbach, but I already have an excuse to do that, so then my brain started exploding with possibilities. So then I narrowed it down to my two favorite Ashbery poems, which appear consecutively in The Double Dream of Spring. The first Ashbery is really long, and I don’t want to type it, but I really want you to read it, so here. Yeah, go ahead, go read it.
That’s the cheating part. Below is my Official Bloggers Silent Poetry Reading Poem.
The Chateau Hardware
It was always November there. The farms
Were a kind of precinct; a certain control
Had been exercised. The little birds
Used to collect along the fence.
It was the great “as though,” the how the day went,
The excursions of the police
As I pursue my bodily functions, wanting
Neither fire nor water,
Vibrating to the distant pinch
And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.
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