Do you remember
Honey-melon moon
Dripping thick sweet light
Where Canal Street saunters off by herself among quiet trees?
And the faint decayed patchouli-
Fragrance of New Orleans
Like a dead tube rose
Upheld in the warm air…
Miraculously whole.

(C) Lola Ridge
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Lola Ridge

• Interim
• Histrionics
• Monologues
• Time-stone
• The Fire
• Mother
• North Wind
• Secrets
• The Alley
• The Dream
• A Memory
• Portraits
• Art And Life
• Jude
• The Fog
• Betty
• An Old Workman
• Cactus Seed
• Comrades
• Celia
• Brooklyn Bridge