au rive
What kind of poem would one write if one could?
What would one do with some money, if he had it, perhaps
to travel; but to where?
To experience Wednesday twilight, immediately after
dark: is that a promise to be kept
Naturally one can’t be sure until any of these things don’t
come true?
From Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners, edited by Joshua Beckman, CAConrad, and Robert Dewhurst © 2015 John Wieners Literary Trust, Raymond Foye, Administrator. Reprinted with the permission of The John Wieners Literary Trust.
John Wieners
John Wieners lived on the periphery of several movements during his lifetime—the Beats, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance—and was granted cult status in the poetry community.