Peter Redgrove
six odes
1. table-lady
I sent her into the wine-glass to listen.
I prodded her into the apple-burrow; I told her to take out
her pin-dagger as soon as she heard the maggot chewing.
I gave her a bath in a walnut-shell.
She made a salt necklace, piercing the crystals together.
I was frightened when she fell into the mustard, but I rolled her
clean on a piece of bread.
I told her to sit in the cruet like an information kiosk and answer
some questions.
I compiled a savory blanc-mange for her studded with angelica;
it was a gobbet of my fish-sauce.
But she ran from the reek of my steak, the evisceration of an
elephant; I gave her a cress-leaf fan.
She got drunk in a grape. I found her snoring like a scarlet
fly on her back in the skin like a flabby canoe.
It was after I had eaten the blood-orange that I missed her.
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