By day the appalling loose beauty
of prowling floes:
lions' heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks,
and a thing like a blown rose. (Andrew Motion)

By day the appalling loose beauty of prowling floes: lions' heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks, and a thing like a blown rose.

Andrew Motion

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