1309: This Dark Apartment | James Schuyler
"This Dark Apartment"
James Schuyler
Coming from the deli
a block away today I
saw the UN building
shine and in all the
months and years I've
lived in this apartment
I took so you and I
would have a place to
meet I never noticed
that it was in my view. . . .
Now, without saying
why, you've let me go.
You don't return my
calls, who used to call
me almost every evening
when I lived in the coun-
try. "Hasn't he told you
why?" "No, and I doubt he
ever will." Goodbye. It's
mysterious and frustrating.
How I wish you would come
back! I could tell
you how, when I lived
on East 49th, first
with Frank and then with John,
we had a lovely view of
the UN building and the
Beekman Towers. They
were not my lovers, though.
You were. You said so.
On this day in...
2010: "I Am Listening to Istanbul" by Orhan Veli Kanik and "The Poet's Final Instructions" by John Berryman
2009: "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman
2008: "Eating Together" by Kim Addonizio
2007: Weekend, no poem
We all have reasons/for moving./I move/to keep things whole.
James Schuyler
Coming from the deli
a block away today I
saw the UN building
shine and in all the
months and years I've
lived in this apartment
I took so you and I
would have a place to
meet I never noticed
that it was in my view. . . .
Now, without saying
why, you've let me go.
You don't return my
calls, who used to call
me almost every evening
when I lived in the coun-
try. "Hasn't he told you
why?" "No, and I doubt he
ever will." Goodbye. It's
mysterious and frustrating.
How I wish you would come
back! I could tell
you how, when I lived
on East 49th, first
with Frank and then with John,
we had a lovely view of
the UN building and the
Beekman Towers. They
were not my lovers, though.
You were. You said so.
On this day in...
2010: "I Am Listening to Istanbul" by Orhan Veli Kanik and "The Poet's Final Instructions" by John Berryman
2009: "I Sit and Look Out" by Walt Whitman
2008: "Eating Together" by Kim Addonizio
2007: Weekend, no poem
We all have reasons/for moving./I move/to keep things whole.