Welcome Catherine to blogland. I see you have a link up to Julia.

You have to know "Rose, Where Did You Get That Red" to get all the intertexts to Julia's poems. The poem "What I saw today" is based on a prose poem of Rimbaud's. The poem about the baseball cap, and the ones about Roberto Clemente's bat and Ornette's saxophone, are based on W.C.W's "Between Walls": think of something others think of as ugly, but that you appreciate. (She writes an explanatory note at the end of each poem.) She has no sense of how good she really is. If I say a poem of hers is good, she will like it, but she has not yet developed a sense of one poem being better than another (thankfully).

the back wings
of the

hospital where
nothing

will grow lie
cinders

in which shine
the broken

pieces of a green
bottle