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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHIFFON VELOURS, by MINA LOY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She is sere
Last Line: A yard of chiffon velours
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
First Line: She is sere
Last Line: A yard of chiffon velours
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
She is sere.
Her features,
verging on a shriek
reviling age,
Flee from death in odd directions
somehow retained by a web of wrinkles.
The site of vanished breasts
is marked by a safety-pin.
Rigid
at rest against the corner-stone
of a department store.
Hers alone to model
the last creation,
Original design
of destitution.
Clothed in memorial scraps
skimpy even for a skeleton.
Trimmed with one sudden burst
of flowery cotton
half her black skirt
glows as a soiled mirror;
reflects the gutter -
a yard of chiffon velours.
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