Time & Brevity
New Orleans
From Modern American Poetry (1921)
Time & Brevity
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 ...
New Orleans,
Like a dead tube rose
Upheld in the warm air ...
Miraculously whole.
Cite this poem
MLA
Ridge, Lola. “New Orleans.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ridge/1/.
Chicago
Ridge, Lola. “New Orleans.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ridge/1/.
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