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Poems

The Colours of London

4 July 2013

1:00 PM

4 July 2013

1:00 PM

(after Yoshio Markino, 1911)

Colours of women, a grey-veiled pink, a bloom
Fading to yellow, stippled, dust-hung, flecked
Soot startling white lace in summer gloom.


Colours of trees, pavements sticky with leaves
Trodden to blackened bronze, a patina
Attached to every twig.

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