Poetry
Nixon, John Jr.
John Nixon, Jr. Four Feel around the Square About as thin as the sheet music They didn't have, my teen-aged uncle And Plussy, only slightly fatter And black as...
...Four Feel around the Square About as thin as the sheet music They didn't have, my teen-aged uncle And Plussy, only slightly fatter And black as every'Baissing ragTime note, buckdanced all up and down The pre-jazz sidewalks in First World War Batesville, Mississippi...
...What A pair of innovators: pale Boy dancing with his shadow, dark Boy dancing with his ghost—the two Happily integrating show Business decades before Broadway Reactionaries dared to dream Of any step so radical...
...What A clatter on the concrete...
Vol. 121 • February 1994 • No. 4
