April 5th - Magazine Street

Jack of Hearts - Magazine Street
20 - Any form of my choosing

And I choose Free Verse:


Le Bon Temps Roule (sic)

The air is different in this place
lowland electric
foreign light
and "Dixie Voodoo"
in neon

I breathe Mississippi salt
and sand and sweat
magnolias
Virginia tobacco
dusk and Otis Redding
wafting from some idling taxi
the best
God Damned
radio stations, I swear

Down here
wasps fly around my legs
sucking sugar from dried beer
on splintered bench, which
in reality is a parking stop
"Most of the Time"

How good you look in
your dress when
you return, plastic cups in
your hands: jacks and cokes
to go



Another poem coming here tomorrow...
In the meantime, check out April 5th's poem from last year.