In memory of Roy DeCarava

The Day Lady Died   It is 12:20 in New York a Fri­daythree days after Bastille day, yesit is 1959 and I go get a shoeshinebe­cause I will get off the 4:19 in East­hamp­tonat 7:15 and then go straight to din­nerand I don’t know the peo­ple who will feed me I walk up the muggy street […]