BROTHERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTOUMS

Finally read all of this book which I bought in 1989 at the Scarborough Town Centre (Toronto). Hard to imagine an Ashbery book there now in the remainder bin and also what on earth I was doing there.

I wrote a pantoum after all the fixed forms including a pantoum that Ashbery wrote in this book

PANTOUM

 

there’s something over there

this nearer that 

something in the dimness

that which is this but further 

 

this nearer that 

this indicating the difference 

that which is this but further 

only twilight knows which 

 

this indicating the difference 

this where you find me

only twilight knows which 

twilight where I write 

 

this where you find me 

that which is this but further 

the twilight where I write 

this nearer that