Light rain is falling in Central Park <br />but not on Upper Fifth Avenue or Central Park West <br />where sun and sky are yellow and blue <br />Winds are gusting on Washington Square <br />through the arches and on to LaGuardia Place <br />but calm is the corner of 8th Street and Second Avenue <br />which reminds me of something John Ashbery said <br />about his poem "Crazy Weather" he said <br />he was in favor of all kinds of weather <br />just so long as it's genuine weather <br />which is always unusually bad, unusually <br />good, or unusually indifferent, <br />since there isn't really any norm for weather <br />When he was a boy his mother met a friend <br />who said, "Isn't this funny weather?" <br /> <br />It was one of his earliest memories<br /><br />David Lehman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/february-23/
