America's Prodigy
         

Somewhere in the midst of infiniti
          Sun Sessions
          After Otis Blackwell
         
          '56.
          Amphibious,
          barely out of his tail.
         
          Heat in his mouth. Don't
          Perhaps he is trying
          to swallow it.
         
          The bull-frogs on backing
          inflate. Be true. Oo oo oo.
          On the tough acoustic
         
          Of an empty pool. Don't
          To a heart. Doo wah
          That's cruel. Sha la la.
          De dum. I mean
          cruel. Wo wo wo wo.
          And true.
         
         
          Lavinia Greenlaw
          Minsk
          Faber and Faber, 2003