Tom Clark


Sounding Chinese at Inspiration Point

Nice spring day off big white cloud

At Inspiration Point escaping time wars

Poet takes book & wine bottle up into Mist Mountains

Since only available agenda is rhyming with silence

Seeking window of opportunity on a wall

I disguise what I have to say by sounding Chinese

Such as stars are now darker and farther away

They take deeper drinks because space is

Drying out afraid to think own thoughts

Administered citizen achieving condition of robot

In public mind things not so good these days

Nor in wrong run will it matter to Tu Fu

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...