I've gotten rid of the last post because it's bad karma. Bad. Bad. Karma.
Here's Marianne instead:
No Swan So Fine
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,with swart blind look askanceand gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn-brown eyes and toothed goldcollar on to show whose bird it was.
Lodged in the Louis the Fifteenth candelabrum-tree of cockscomb-tinted buttons, dahlias,sea-urchins, and everlastings, it perches on the branching foamof...
Published on March 09, 2010 08:26