By Frank Marshall Davis
via the Poetry Foundation
Her rum-brown rope of a voice
Fastens flannel strands
Around soft sides of staid notes
Sitting properly
On their oh so proper scale
She pulls
And the notes fall
Into her molten mold
Of flaming sound
A Note from the Editor
Billie Holiday, "Lady Day," was born on this day in 1915.
Source: Poetry (December 2023)
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