The fluffy stuff. (poem)

From: The Nation | Date: April 25, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

THE FLUFFY STUFF I want the fluffy stuff to keep coming down. I'm looking into the garden from the third floor. I walt for it to settle on brownstone window sills, on fire escapes, their narrow iron stairs. Thin-as-tissue-bits fall and rise on spirals of air like meandering moths, and never reach the ground. At last, dead vines on the trellis in the sooty backyard begin to whiten. There sprouts a mat of white grass. Tips of pickets on the fence get mittens. Chimney tops in the opposite block have their hoods and copings furred. The fluffy stuff catches in crotches of the old ...

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