Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INTEGUMENT, by BENET ROSNY


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INTEGUMENT, by                    
First Line: She wears a long tea-gown of dim flesh-colored crepe
Last Line: On the startled skin of a woman.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


She wears a long tea-gown of dim flesh-colored crêpe.
She sits on a couch covered with purple-black velvet, decorous, stiff, in the
firelight,
Just between me and her husband.
When she gave him his cup, she turned, and the folds of her dress
Grew livid, dead,
Curdling in sick distaste.
But when her hand touched mine,—
(Nobody noticed the tinkle
Of porcelain cup on rings)—
They crisped into heat,
Textured with faint white grains,
Like delicate goose-flesh
On the startled skin of a woman.





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