Lawrence Durrell Poems

Soft toys that make to seem girls
In cool whitewash with two coral
Valves of lip printing each others' grease ...
A clockwork Cupid's bow. Increase!
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This unimportant morning
Something goes singing where
The capes turn over on their sides
And the warm Adriatic rides
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The soft quem quam will be Scops the Owl
conjugation of nouns, a line of enquiry,
powdery stubble of the socratic prison
laurels crack like parchments in the wind.
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For Diana Gould

On charts they fall like lace,
Islands consuming in a sea
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