Connor and Jack discuss John Ashbery's "Homeless Heart." To read the poem, see below or go here: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/23291/auto/0/0/John-Ashbery/HOMELESS-HEART For more on Ashbery: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-ashbery To check out his collection Quick Question: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062225955/?utm_source=aps&utm_medium=hc&utm_campaign=aps Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at [email protected]. HOMELESS HEART When I think of finishing the work, when I think of the finished work, a great sadness overtakes me, a sadness paradoxically like joy. The circumstances of doing put away, the being of it takes possession, like a tenant in a rented house. Where are you now, homeless heart? Caught in a hinge, or secreted behind drywall, like your nameless predecessors now that they have been given names? Best not to dwell on our situation, but to dwell in it is deeply refreshing. Like a sideboard covered with decanters and fruit. As a box kite is to a kite. The inside of stumbling. The way to breath. The caricature on the blackboard.

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