Scheme
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
with colour? With neutrals that work well
on walls; Cold Dawn, Pavement Grey,
Borrowed Light® and Pearl-pale.
What would make our island unit sing?
I saw Linnets’ Wing or Burnished Dove
but yielded soon to Helmet Green –
it did offset the Silver Apple of our stove.
But that was then. This is now. More
Charred Troy than Hammered Gold, we’re cut
to the Hare-bone White of our
lives. All is utterly repossessed.
Note: ‘Borrowed Light’ is the registered name of a Farrow & Ball paint. All other colours come from the special commemorative range ‘Poet’s Palet
Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116:
A WB Yeats Special Issue
This essential Yeats anniversary publication is edited by Vona Groarke and includes responses to Yeats’s legacy and readings of his poems from public figures as diverse as Bill Whelan, Neil Jordan, Colm Tóibín, Frank McGuinness, Mary Costello and John Banville, along with new poems responding to Yeats’s work by Irish and international poets such as Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Philip Schultz, Sinéad Morrissey and Harry Clifton. The issue also includes Yeats’s poetry collections, reviewed by leading poets as if just published. Now also available in hardback.
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