...instruments. Humdrum testaments were scattered around. His head Locked into mine. We were a seesaw. Something Ought to be written about how this affects...empty mind Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like folliage of its desire to communicate Something between breaths, if only for the sake Of others and...

...vividness of mental images when we are dreaming-by-the-book. And I ended with lines by John Ashbery: Something Ought to be written about how this affects...Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate . . . Ashbery returns often to this subject, and when he does, the image he again and again uses to...

...is in a street of 'bananas and the clangor of Japanese instruments'. The poet ponders this 'seesaw': Something Ought to be written about how this affects...between breaths, if only for the sake Of others and of their desire to understand you and desert you For other centers of communication, so that understanding...

...images when we are under the instruction of the verbal arts — and I ended with lines by John Ashbery: Something Ought to be written about how this affects...Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate Ashbery returns often to this subject and when he does, the image that he again and again uses to express...

...details, language, and poetic stances to include in a poem. He ends on a note of pure discursiveness. Something "Ought to be written about how this affects / You when you write poetry," he says: The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage...