70spoems/flash

FLASH AND NAILS – Part two

You asked me to write a poem about us,
what’s there to say?
I’ll trade a framed copy
of Any Woman’s Blues
for the Pasadena Watermelon Man,
unmounted,
and call it even.

5/18/76

Anys Woman’s Blues is a poem by Sherley Anne Williams, Pasadena Watermelon Man is a photograph.