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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Always had a weakness for this song, which I associate with airports in England (Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, and Heathrow)in Decembers of the 1970s: in memory I heard it incessantly waiting for planes to take me to New York or Paris, and I was always flying to one or the other. DL
Posted by: The Best American Poetry | December 23, 2011 at 04:04 PM