Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Spitting Image of Joan Baez

She was the spitting image of Joan Baez,
and I knew her and I loved her.
The sound of the redbird was sweeter,
the sky was bluer, and water
and my thoughts were as clear
as the music in which we lived.
And oh, the grass was dark green
and a bed upon which we lay our thoughts
beneath three-masted sailing clouds
or the quiet gaze of the moon.
It made all the difference,
like a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain.
Do you know what I mean?
Can you possibly understand
what I mean?

~William Hammett


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