White noise
‘Twas in White Noise by Don DeLillo
I found the faded leaf
maple or oak, oak or maple, whichever way a leitmotif
of that one, hot summer with her -
tousle-haired embezzler or stand-in Jeanne Duval,
Miss Lemur or whichever pseudonym
might best befit her, gammy-legged sitter
for Manet, de-camped to Brixton for a spell
and me the one to go under. That leaf was plucked from
a low-slung oak the night we were locked
inside the wrought-iron gates of Brock
-well Park, its dark
colon, low-slung oaks, her low-slung halter
and halting, ‘Let’s do it here…’.
And so we did, against the backfire? shotgun sound
-track, and dog-bark : my perfect metre,
her feather-boa sprightly as a firework. It peters out...
then all comes back, the girl
who gave the slip to each biographer. And now me too...
My hooped, pale arms all
hooped on nothing but a hangover.. .white noise
of feathers crackling in the pillow,
White noise of Alka-Seltzer in a glass.
A4 white noise. White Noise by Don DeLillo.
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