White, white, how I love you, white:
puffed breast of white gull,
smooth feathers,
white scraps of flight flung
like discarded letters
across the waves.
White foam scraped edgewards,
hemming the selvages of the waves.
White sheets, white cotton,
white gauze curtain
hanging motionless
in a breezeless hour.
White silence, white singing of the stars.
Off-white paperback mended with tape.
Yellowed pages, re-read and mended-
a gamekeeper, a lame creeper,
the same weeping woman;
green woods, purple shadows,
newly-hatched pheasant bods
like sparks of life:
She’d rather be caught
by the wild hound of Pluto,
than by the
speculative spaniel of Plato…
(The First Lady Chatterley, DH Lawrence)
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