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Author : Denise Levertov
: Life At War
Text :
"White phosphorus, white phosphorus,
mechanical snow,
where are you falling?"
"I am falling impartially on roads and roofs,
on bamboo thickets, on people.
My name recalls rich seas on rainy nights,
each drop that hits the surface eliciting
luminous response from a million algae.
My name is a whisper of sequins. Ha!
Each of them is a disk of fire,
I am the snow that burns.
I fall
wherever men send me to fall --
but I prefer flesh, so smooth, so dense:
I decorate it in black, and seek
the bone."
From : Page 127..
Chronology :
April 09, 2020 : 6 -- Added.
July 07, 2022 : 6 -- Updated.
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