These songs aren't really summery, but I think they're perfect for every nighttime drive, no matter the season. I hope you give them a listen and get the same relaxation and enjoyment out of them as I have for the past year or so.
As for the title of this playlist, as posted on my blog, it was recently inspired by a poem I found inside a Wallace Stevens poetry collection that I bought at an amazing little bookstore in Seaside, Florida, on vacation last week.
I'll list the entire poem below:
I had as lief be embraced by the porter at the hotel
As to get no more from the moonlight
Than your moist hand.
Be the voice of the night and Florida in my ear.
Use dusky words and dusky images.
Darken your speech.
Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,
Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,
But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,
Conceiving words,
Conceiving words,
As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence,
And out of their droning sibilants makes
A serenade.
Say, puerile, that the buzzards crouch on the ridge-pole
And sleep with one eye watching the stars fall
Below Key West.
Say that the palms are clear in a total blue,
Are clear and are obscure; that it is night;
That the moon shines.
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