"Turkey in the Straw"

"Turkey in the Straw", zydeco style.

Playing With Your Food

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Carl Andre's Passport (1960), 1969, page

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Joan Mitchell's Page 92-93 from One Cent Life Portfolio (1964)

Pierre Bonnard's Nu au Tub (1912) and D.H. Lawrence's Gloire de Dijon (1917)

GLOIRE DE DIJON

When she rises in the morning

I linger to watch her;

Spreads the bath-cloth underneath the window

And the sunbeams catch her

Glistening white on the shoulders,

While down her sides the mellow

Golden shadow glows as

She stoops to the sponge, and the swung breasts

Sway like full-blown yellow

Gloire de Dijon roses.

She drips herself with water, and the shoulders

Glisten as silver, they crumple up

Like wet and falling roses, and I listen

for the sluicing of their rain-dishevelled petals.

In the window full of sunlight

Concentrates her golden shadow

Fold on fold, until it glows as 

Mellow as the gory roses.

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