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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AN OLD PLATTER, by KAY PHILLIPS
First Line: Old china keeps its secrets
Last Line: Still carrying that antique well-fed air.
Subject(s): Butchers
First Line: Old china keeps its secrets
Last Line: Still carrying that antique well-fed air.
Subject(s): Butchers
Old China keeps its secrets.
Here on this platter -- blue and white -- I trace
The tiny multitudinous cracks,
Like wrinkles on a kind old face.
How tiny on its spreading space appears
The modern butcher's miserly affair!
It is the relic of a fuller day,
Still carrying that antique well-fed air.
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