Stardust

My first
encounter with
William Carlos Williams

was not through
a red wheel barrow
or climbing over his

fence to knock off
the plums in
his icebox

but buying
a record called
Poetry & Jazz

where the second
part of the title
was what drew

me in & on which,
in addition to
readings of Whalen

& Ferlinghetti poems,
was Hoagy Carmichael
reciting in a voice

that seemed to me
just right
for the occasion

Young Sycamore
& Tract. Thus we
come across