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Never Enough
Reflections on John Ashbery 80th birthday



Everyone gets a gold star and cake in the friendly garden.
It was not like Proust at all 8 No flushing memories ¬¬—

Madelines made perfection, whipped in copper bowls and pans
John bought some 30 years ago † Things take their own course
To them he was John, excitements weighed through decades

As an ornament of candy to a warm chandelier, this is the place he wanted to escape
The place of fruit picking, family and winswept wanderings that made the city hop/e

Holy | His home now crème-brule, his grandfather's spell in the upper room
Land | New owners of Ashbery Farms, Grown children from across the path

This is my next time and I ask too many questions
wanting to walk the beach in the mind of the man who wrote

lakeside to lakeside reflecting on monarch butterflies out of place,
melting ice creams with churning mechanisms of who isn't today

The futility seeks your outstretched hand and places
a slice of birthday cake, a frosting flower and a fork.







Books Coming Out Really Soon:

Mark Wallace
Nate Pritts
Doug Mansion
Charles Baldwin
Marjorie Norris
Mark DuCharme
Kyle Schlesinger
Mark Tursi
Michael Kelleher

New Ebook:

We made a few adjustments to Donora Hillard's ebook, Bone Cages. It's back in a new jacket and ready for the world. Check it out now!

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Here's a new review of "The Ecstasy of Capitulations" by Daniel Borzutzky
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