Showing posts with label Anita O'Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anita O'Day. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

"Anita today, or the drive home from work"


Cloud banks won't give an inch, weary with the jokes,
and there for a first day (a first time) comes up a life—
 ha!

Looking for sunbreak's too much of a lady who's high.
Solitary weeks arrayed in a row look like streaks on the old old
  old—

(funny me in that mood which wishes clouds into O'Day,
and a lippy grin) A face, hers, Anita's along the road coming to
  a blue lake

is what this is. Birds,e.g. still as in a series of cool asphodels,
in their own feathery and white but ornamental gloves
 aren't

Sure she'd felt what it was like to wear the predawn and a hat
just like one. Driving up the road in that ridiculously long
 and rising way,

today's all it took for me to see. Image followed by a trilogy
of things things things—bird, hat & lake—is all the mood, given
 by road

there is, for me.