Patti La Belle


Patti improvising Patti!
A metaphorical overdrive is sparked:
language is loosed of its dead secrets,
singer and song self-transcend.
Mythical things and iguanas gleam.

Then life’s imprecisions seem so little.
A hundred rainbows arc unseen.


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What’s queer about Ms La Belle? Just ask any queen in the States and anyone who’s been intoxicated by her glorious improvisation and runs of melody.