Emily Carr - glamour

heraldic, subjective.

(grammar’s
etymological daughter).

cock-kingdom-come-crow.

matter got up in
a costume of itself.

any wounding, slap
in the face, lightning bolt,
gains character

from what it touches
in the world:

a young housewife
in a negligee tucking in
stray ends of hair.

the sparrow of childhood.

half-stripped trees Christ
they haven’t any sense to

stay out of the rain.