April 16, 2010: Anxiety, Frank O’Hara
Anxiety
Frank O’Hara
I’m having a real day of it.
There was
something I had to do. But what?
There are no alternatives, just
the one something.
I have a drink,
it doesn’t help - far from it!
I
feel worse. I can’t remember how
I felt, so perhaps I feel better.
No, Just a little darker.
If I could
get really dark, richly dark, like
being drunk, that’s the best that’s
open as a field. Not the best,
but the best except for the impossible
pure light, to be as if above a vast
prairie, rushing and pausing over
the tiny golden heads in deep grass.
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[More like this: Animals, Frank O’Hara; For Grace, After A Party, Frank O’Hara; Gamin, Frank O’Hara]
On this day in…
2009: The Continuous Life, Mark Strand
2008: An old story, Bob Hicok
2007: you can’t be a star in the sky without holy fire, Frank X. Gaspar
2006: For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu, A.M. Klein
2005: Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem,
Bob Hicok
