body { -ms-overflow-style: scrollbar; overflow-y: scroll; overscroll-behavior-y: none; } .errorContainer { background-color: #FFF; color: #0F1419; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 10%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; } .errorButton { margin: 3em 0; } .errorButton a { background: #1DA1F2; border-radius: 2.5em; color: white; padding: 1em 2em; text-decoration: none; } .errorButton a:hover, .errorButton a:focus { background: rgb(26, 145, 218); } .errorFooter { color: #657786; font-size: 80%; line-height: 1.5; padding: 1em 0; } .errorFooter a, .errorFooter a:visited { color: #657786; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 1em; } .errorFooter a:hover, .errorFooter a:active { text-decoration: underline; } #placeholder, #react-root { display: none !important; } body { background-color: #FFF !important; }

JavaScript is not available.

We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center.

Terms of Service Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Imprint Ads info © 2023 Twitter, Inc.

Conversation

The Poetry Society

#OdesInAutumn Denise Riley's 'Lone Star Clattering' was published in #ThePoetryReview Summer 2016. Read more at poems.poetrysociety.org.uk Buy back issues & subscriptions at: bit.ly/ThePoetryReview

DENISE RILEY. Lone Star Clattering. What got done to me stains/through my hopes of passing/as fully human-- though my / 'bad blood' won't gloss that; // to canter around its crimson / rosette would tart up a harm // more my postwar bad luck / than a told shame's mother. // Still, the pose: Say yellow rose/ go hard & plain to Amarillo. // They have shot me down! / Yet do I rise, a tad orange.

read image description

ALT

10:00 AM · Nov 6, 2022