From Baudelaire Through Ashbery, A Poem (Final Revisions)

I wish I wish I wish a bed of poems

I might I might like the emboiled Charles

Thread from the milky fever of an unrhymed reason.

I wish I had an attic cowcatcher, could scrape

The steeples clean of the wonderous songs of lunacy.

 

I wish my words might like Odd John’s

Mulligans be scored a birdie or

Tacked to a widow’s window shades before

She draws her garter and lamps out

The last whiff of a soiled dawn.

 

I wish I could conjure a blue Lily

Adorn a house with green shutters.

I wish I had Galt’s gift of blather,

The bladder of thirty years ago

When the wish of a second scotch was still not a wish.  

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[Neville]

When two poets just happen to have as a sideline each fulltime posts as critics .. & then some other geezer comes along & starts scribbling .. something BIG is bound to happen .. In this particular case, one mighty impressive bit o poetry is spawned .. and every single lines is a winner sir Ken .. with much respect .. Neville

[W. Barrett Munn]

Splendid, Ken. Not a misstep to be heard whether reading out loud or in silence.

Winston

[Ken Simm.]

This has a real old and ancient feel to it. A crossing of styles and a complex history deriving from a close study of those histories and styles. And that is all to the good because it assists the whole atmosphere of delicate beauty.

[Ken e Bujold]

thanks my friend. This was sparked by an Ashbery poem about a Baudelaire poem. Other than that, mine is cut from a different cloth. Love both of them, so it was fun to write. New collection is a bit more traditional than the last, so the Ashbery influence will be minimal, but had to have at least one tip of cap to him.

last verse simply goof balling. Blue Lily lead to Lilly Blatherwick to her painting of House of Green Shutters to G Browns novel of same title, which lead to Galt the great Scot writer of late 18th century to ...well Scotch, and why I can't drink as much of it anymore LOL

ah how the mind does work its small miracles