10 Ekim 2016 Pazartesi

John Ash -To The City


John Ash (born 29 June 1948) is an expatriate British poet and writer.
His lifelong interest in Byzantium (especially its architecture) is a major theme which runs through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family friends and the three major cities he has lived in. As well as his books (largely published by Carcanet), his work has appeared in The New YorkerThe New York TimesThe Village VoiceThe Washington Post and Paris Review.








                                  TO THE CITY

The village has come to the city.
In the narrow street, ,in the crowd
pressing down it, in the faces of tall buildings
we plainly see the shimmer of poplars
in the emptiness of the plateou, the huddle
of houses from which the voices of families,
and tribes before them, rise, reaching across
the sharp ridges of their displacement
to settle like smoke in the deepest hollows
of the city. They are very near to us, in the store
or the next apartment, in the shadow of the tower
yet are heard a distance, as ignorance,
and, in their echoes, the city seems to shudder
like something imagined from every far away --
glass city for those without windows. Their shoes
sit at doorways as if begging for admission.



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