Poetry A Tribute to Lewis Warsh
Falling into Conversation with Lewis
—for Lewis Warsh on his 60th birthday.
The flower-child headband photo
and Jackson Brown’s Late for the Sky
At Bolinas
and in the Berkshires
Lewis
grew hair
kept journals
bared the souls of his teenage girlfriends
married Bernadette
weathered The Sonnets flap
told me to visit Jim Brodey if I was ever in L.A.
reared offspring
briefed the whole
And here
the scenes in so short a compass
level the street
lean high up
far, icy
I go and we talk
to contain particles
invisible in their shadows
fame for a moment
desolate into tandem
travels the vivid thin arch
in any glance, meaning
cut sometimes
not answered
glows
through torn paper
the milestone between 59 and 61
winds down
things
hum for awhile
lay on the morning
while some of our history
never leaves