Ron Padgett

 

 

Reading Reverdy

The wind that went through the head left it plural.
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The half-erased words on the wall of bread.
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Someone is grinding the color of ears.
She looks like and at her.
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A child draws a man and the earth 
Is covered with snow.
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He comes down out of the night 
When the hills fall.
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The line part of you goes out to infinity.
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I get up on top of an inhuman voice.

John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...