Reading Notes W14: Flanner, Part X

12 O'Clock Freight

And then by palmy drives and boulevards
Where stucco gleams beside the carob-tree,
And Spanish patios in vain enclose
Lone hearts from Iowa and Kankakee.

And past Anita's wealthy meadows where
Her smouldering pea-cocks doze among her hounds
With sapphire laces folded in the dark
That daily trail and twitch about the grounds.

On by the oaks whose forest stoops upon
The listing hills where once the drift of deer
Drew down with winter's waters green,
A herd of dreams in glassy atmosphere.

Hicks, Jack, et al. “12 O'Clock Freight.” The Literature of California, vol. 1, University of California Press, 2000, pp. 517–517.