“Jane” in this poem is Jane Freilicher, a very close friend of O'Hara who Gooch describes as “A pretty twenty-six-year-old painter, with dark hair and a misleadingly serious and preoccupied demeanor, Freilicher had a campy wit and brainy zest for literature in the vein of Ivy Compton-Burnett that ma...
The eagerness of objects to
be what we are afraid to do
cannot help but move us Is
this willingness to be a motive
in us what we reject? The
really stupid things, I mean
a can of coffee, a 35 ¢ ear
ring, a handful of hair, what
do these things do to us? We
come into the room, the windows
are empty, the sun is weak
and slippery on the ice And a
sob comes, simply because it is
coldest of the things we know
Frank-ohara released Interior (With Jane) on Fri Jan 01 1971.