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!
Their cherry-ripe hullo brims the open purse
Of eyes washed white by the marmoreal light;
So swaying as if on pyres they go
About the buried business of the night,
Cold witches of the elementary tease
Balanced on the horn of a supposed desire…
Trees shed their leaves like some of these.
(Lawrence Durrell)
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