"This Page Went Through the Window' [by Alina Gregorian]

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April 10, 2009

"This Page Went Through the Window' [by Alina Gregorian]

This Page Went Through the Window

Is this biodegradable to you. I mean, is this paper to be eaten by you. I am on the edge of agreeing with philosophers. You have seldom looked twice at shutters. They are gray. They clash with couches. Have you seen the pine tree that will change my mind. Are you on the edge of hyperbolic reasoning. What have you left in the garbage can. I mean birch tree. What have you left in the soil at Fort Knox. After the Dust Bowl, Becket said "No." And the great state of Arkansas elected a mayor.

-- Alina Gregorian

Posted by The Best American Poetry on April 10, 2009 at 03:32 AM in Poems | Permalink

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman