yellow sun yellow cat eye kitchen floor, Ghost Dance 1, October 1968 (1 Viewer)

[David]

 

[mjp]

"rocking my child in her belly" would suggest that he wrote this at least 4 years before it was published.

You know, in case you haven't read any useless trivia today.

 

[David]

Yes, and the opening recalls "the tragedy of the leaves": "I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead....", a similar mood of deadly hangover...and imagery of sun and yellow is also in the earlier poem...and recollections of New Orelans with "Carondolet street..." I couldn't figure out "in the kitchen the tablets spidercrawl to life/as a white cat looks at me.../and as I drink the bubbles..." Then I realized it must be an antacid tablet....

 

[Black Swan]

The drawings look like linocuts, I wonder who did them.