February 23

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