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To be a guest on the Grace Cavilieri show
is better than having a banana split
on 59th Street, even better than hot chocolate
after skating on thin ice while Kierkegaard cheers,
better, even, than going to Denmark
in melancholy solidarity,
even better than the first time you memorized
whole paragraphs from Either / Or and Fear and Trembling
in those days when it was easier to memorize sonnets and soliloquys
and recite them before an adoring audience
even better than that
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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
To be a guest on the Grace Cavalieri show is to be encouraged, delighted, and humbled. She is such a gift.
Posted by: Ann Bracken | May 11, 2024 at 08:27 AM
Grace is a wonder. She is the Great Appreciator in the poetry world. And your session with her was especially entertaining.
Posted by: Terence Winch | May 11, 2024 at 10:46 AM
OHMYGOSH. David Lehman, a god among men, said my name. I, who read his every word, not the least of all SINATRA! And got to hear him sing midcentury songs...I am the lucky one.
Well, I am in love with David Lehman=and STACY HARWOOD LEHMAN= you just have to deal with making this old lady happy. xxoo
Posted by: Grace Cavalieri | May 11, 2024 at 05:50 PM
I so hope you start a podcast! David and Grace are the perfect combination. The singing, the poetry, the magic . . . Thank you both!
Posted by: Nin Andrews | May 12, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Wonderful poem!
Posted by: Paul Tracy DANISON | May 13, 2024 at 02:31 AM